Necrosmith

Necrosmith

Fair · Roguelike · 2022

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Fair at $2.99. Buy it if you want it.

Cost per hour
$0.25/hr
Reviews▼
86% of 5,369
Genre rank
Top 22% Roguelike

Holding it back: Reviews, Reach

Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Time and effort

Typical playtime
11.9h
To 100%
14.4h 1.2x the story
Achievements
30

Price and sales

Sales
41 on record
Typical cut
55% off
Steam low
$0.89 March 2026
Sale every
37d last October 2026
Lowest now $0.95 at Fanaticalall-time low $0.62 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
12 now
Cheaper than
91% of its genre
Better reviewed
70% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

93% start to 12% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

A game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

41 discounts in the 4 years on record, a median of 55 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 2 days ago.

Its score puts it in the top 22 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 70 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Nordic Ashes: Survivors of Ragnarok ($9.99, scores 69) beats it on value, while it beats Necrosmith 2 ($7.99, scores 47).

More about Necrosmith

8 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2022 to November 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 65 percent of the 724 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 2 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach750K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Refunds8 of 800 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

What players say

Im gonna beat the game but boy do I hate it. Very little control, insane difficulty, necessary boring grind to even do basic thing. The game will essentially end whenever it wants, regardless of how many dudes you have (which you cant control) Very close to being a good game but still bad. The sequel is slightly better but still confusing and unnecessarily difficult. Would give it a neutral review if I could because...
A Steam playerNot recommendedafter 2.9hSep 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Love the idea, horrible implementation. The AI is horrible, feels like you need to micro manage them all the time, leaving some at the base to defend doesn't work because you are either in full control or some spawn just wipes them all out. You get so many parts, i wish there was a way to auto-create specific units as soon as the parts are available. Also wish i could auto-sell some parts for mana generation Also...
A Steam playerNot recommendedafter 8.8hSep 2026Read on Steam
Texto de cabeçalho # 🇺🇸 English # 💀 Building Your Own Undead Army Never Gets Old - Surprisingly Deep and Incredibly Addictive Going into *Necrosmith*, I expected a simple management game with a dark fantasy theme. Instead, I found one of the most creative indie strategy games I've played in a while. The idea of assembling undead creatures from different monster body parts sounds quirky at first, but it quickly...
A Steam playerRecommendedafter 4.0hAug 2026Read on Steam

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

About the game

A necromancer simulator. Assemble the dead using different body parts while upgrading your tower, combine the abilities of the different fantastic races to fight your way through the hordes of enemies and overrun the ’chosen ones’. To tell the truth, the dead are pretty, uhm, dumb.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 or equvalent, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Necrosmith scores 66/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1949190/necrosmith
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 16, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Details

DeveloperAlawar
PublisherAlawar
GenreRoguelike
Released2022
Players750Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements30