20 Minutes Till Dawn
Worth it · Roguelike · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.99. Typically $2.99 in seasonal sales. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17.
- Cost per hour
- $1.35/hr
- ReviewsA
- 90% of 29,230
- Genre rank
- Top 11% Roguelike
Holding it back: Recent reviews
Why
Recent reviews trending down: 59% over the last 30 days against 90% all-time.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 3.7h
- To 100%
- 29.7h 8.0x the story
- Finish
- 42% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 34
Price and sales
- Sales
- 41 on record
- Typical cut
- 40% off
- Steam low
- $2.49 February 2026
- Sale every
- 32d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 44 now
- Recent reviews
- 59% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 78% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 84% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
73% start to 5% rarestA 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
It has been discounted 41 times in the 4 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 40 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 11 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 78 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 84 percent. The nearest things to it, Nomad Survival ($3.49, scores 60) and God Of Weapons ($5.99, scores 60), are both worse buys on this math.
More about 20 Minutes Till Dawn
Players rate it 90 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 59 percent. Something recent has soured the room. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2025 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 83 percent of the 2,962 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 3.7 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 30, 8.0 times as much.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 3.7 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.
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
What players say
It's a good game, but do NOT buy it. At first it's fun but later I'm so annoyed, it has somet pain in the ass. And these problems won't be fixed bc third party says the author happily packed half mil $ and just stopped updating (last update is 2024) 1. No autofire. Look at hell of torment or bratato or any vampire games. You need keep pressing the mouse for 20 minutes each run. 2. No stats. You don't see your stats...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Honestly not a bad game, I just wouldn't recommend it. I play it as a distraction from life but I don't enjoy it that much, I think in this category of game it's well made, but very mundane. I'd give it a yes + no review but you can't, but I'm leaning slightly towards no just because I'm sure there are other twin stick shooters like this out there with more interesting mechanics.
Loved playing this game throughout the years, coming back every once in a while as development was happening. Finally 100%'d it. Not sure what's going on with the developer but as far as I'm concerned the game's out and finished.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
20 Minutes Till Dawn is a survival roguelite where endless hordes of creatures lurk from the dark. Craft an array of overpowering builds and eradicate waves of Lovecraftian nightmares. Will you be able to survive the night?
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 1 GB RAM, 102 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
20 Minutes Till Dawn scores 74/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1966900/20-minutes-till-dawnReviews 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 Nov 8, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.