Rogue: Genesia
Worth it · Roguelike · 2025
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $14.99.
- Length
- 8.7h
- Value
- $1.72/hr
- Reviews
- 91% 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 5 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 40% ($8.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 41% ($8.84)
- Last discount ended
- 17 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GTX 770 / Radeon 8950 HD, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
Walk upon a new world and slay foes endangering it. Rogue : Genesia is an action rogue-lite game, where you fight relentless hordes consisting of hundreds and thousands of monsters, make your build, break the balance, defeat bosses and save one of the many worlds.
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
September 2022 is where it bottomed out, at $2.69. It has been discounted 38 times in the 4 years tracked here, typically at 24 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.
On value it sits in the top 19 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 80 percent of its genre. The nearest things to it, Karate Survivor ($1.49, scores 62) and NIMRODS ($9.99, scores 59), are both worse buys on this math.
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 14 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 81 percent of the 542 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 8.7 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 91, 10 times as much.
The drop-off
91% start to <1% finishA 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
Players
101 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 13:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
It's a bit rough around the edges, but still an amazing roguelike. Keep it up dev! I would love to see more.
I wish I could give this a sideways thumb, instead of an up thumb or a down thumb. Its a very fun, unique survivor like/bullet hell. But the one major downside is the optimization of this game. I've seen other reviews and threads in the steam forums mention the same thing, from people with better rigs than mine. There is a certain point where the enemies on screen will bring your FPS down to slide show levels. No...
As a game, I actually find Rogue Genesia really fun, and one of the better bullet heavens on the market. However, it is probably the least optimized game I've ever played. The game has a strong start, but unfortunately the endgame just becomes unplayable. The survivor mode specifically eventually devolves to watching the game go by at 1 FPS. After beating the boss at the 1 hour mark in an A rank survivor mode, I had...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Rogue: Genesia scores 74/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2067920/rogue-genesiaReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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