Immortal Mantis

Immortal Mantis

Worth it · RPG · 2022

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $1.99.

Length
1.3h 1.5h to 100%
Value
$1.53/hr
Reviews
95% of 241 positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 4 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Reviews95% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 91% after the small-sample adjustment
Holding it back
Value$1.53/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 226 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Discover secrets, solve puzzles and survive the serial-killer in this pixelated topdown. You are Akin, an exterminator, who bought a house in a rural area, but the past of this house will affect your present.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Any. Windows only.

The value story

27 discounts in the 4 years on record, a median of 30 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

On value it sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games closest to it, Buddy Simulator 1984 ($9.99, scores 79) and House ($9.99, scores 81) both come in lower.

More about Immortal Mantis

This site sampled 226 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2022 to July 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 94 percent of the 181 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 80 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

83% start to 38% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements

What players say

Immortal Mantis is a pleasant tiny game which could be placed among purveyors of post-Faith: The Unholy Trinity wave of top-down retro horrors. It's sports a slight Hotline Miami's acidy surrealism with a distinct presence to the titular serial killer. obviously, not wanting to be confused with a cereal - that's why it's acidy . Right away the art direction is immaculate. It also manages to fuse psychological horror...
Adeptus ⁧AconiteRecommendedafter 1.7hOct 2025Read on Steam
1 more review, not recommended
This is a tech demo they're wanting to charge you for. What little there is looks really good, but the entire thing lasts about an hour. I'm reminded heavily of browser games from 20 years ago that you could play for free and then never touch again.
SlabAcidNot recommendedafter 1.7hMar 2025Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Immortal Mantis scores 83/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1878570/immortal-mantis
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 30, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperBitlife
PublisherBitlife
GenreRPG
Released2022
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements8