Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP
Skip · Narrative · 2012
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Under the fair line today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 60% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$7.99Skip
Typical seasonal cut
$1.9975% offFair
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.95/hr
- Reviews▼
- 77% of 2,658
- Critics
- 83 players 6 lower
- Genre rank
- Top 31% Narrative
Holding it back: Reviews, Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $1.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 4.1h
- To 100%
- 5.1h 1.2x the story
- Achievements
- 14
Price and sales
- Sales
- 60 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $1.19 November 2024
- Sale every
- 70d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 0 now
- Cheaper than
- 44% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 60% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
58% start to 3% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
60 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 10 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 31 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Röki ($1.99, scores 80) beats it on value, while it beats Gods Will Be Watching ($9.99, scores 26).
More about Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP
This site sampled 240 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 61 percent of the 389 reviews written there were positive, against 77 percent overall, and those are 28 percent of everything written about it.
At 4.1 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
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
Aesthetically, this game is a masterpiece. The pixel art, soundtrack, and overall visual direction of the game is top notch. Gameplay, on the other hand, does leave a lot to be desired-it's dead simple and often tedious, and the "walking simulator" part of it definitely can aggravate you if you backtrack for no reason, especially the constant Mingi Taw fights. With that aside, the game is still good. However, I have...
1 more review, not recommended
Bought this for the compensation of playing it somewhere when I was a teenager. it's not polished for mouse/keyboard control, let alone controllers. Still the screen touch logic. Long walks. Slow Animations. Boring Boss fight. Short and simple gameplay. Pretentious story. Although it has cool visuals, great sound effects and some clever puzzles. I found it not worth recommending for players who have way more better...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Traverse a mythic little realm, use a sword to do battle & evoke sworcery to solve mystical musical mysteries.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Graphics Card with 128 MB of RAM, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP scores 44/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/204060/superbrothers-sword-sworcery-epReviews 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 Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.