Project Lazarus
Fair · Roguelike · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $5.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 3.9h
- Value
- $1.54/hr
- Reviews
- 80% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 60% ($2.39)
- Last discount ended
- 31 days ago
Watch it for a saleSources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, nVidia GTX 1050, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
You are the first party mech pilot of alien planet colonizers! Project Lazarus is a survival game with rogue-lite elements. Deploy and upgrade your mech to the metal!
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
The value story
June 2022 is where it bottomed out, at $1.39. 36 discounts in the 4 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
It is cheaper than 76 percent of its genre. Twilight Survivors ($1.19, scores 67) outscores it, and so does Achilles: Survivor ($8.99, scores 53). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
This site sampled 565 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 53 percent of the 240 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 3.9 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 11, 2.7 times as much.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 3.9 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
95% start to 5% rarestNo 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
Players
2 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 05:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
The graphics is much better than genre standard, I'll give the game at least that, but I don't think that's the main thing the players look for (was this ever in question? I mean they love Vampire Survivors and Brotato). My main issues with this game are: 1. It lacks variety, especially when it comes to different builds and different types of enemies 2. Grinding gets boring fast, because optimal way to grind and fun...
I can't recommend this. It's slow. I don't mind grind as long as the gameplay is fun and I'm just dying/losing along the way, but this is a little boring. Maybe it gets better later...? Also the game is made for a console controller, which I don't use. That's fine, but shouldn't that be part of the sales pitch on the Store page? I get that this abandonware is cheap. Maybe you can get your money's worth out of a few...
I will give this 6/10 its ok but not brilliant for a bullet hell game.Mind you for £3.50 its well worth it.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Project Lazarus scores 52/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2024230/project-lazarusReviews 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 Sep 27, price as of Oct 1.
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