Legend of Grimrock
BANGER · RPG · 2012
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
WAIT.
A BANGER today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 80% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$14.99BANGER
Typical seasonal cut
$2.9980% offBANGER
- Cost per hourS
- $0.91/hr
- ReviewsS
- 93% of 6,756
- Critics
- 82 players 11 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% RPG
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 16.5h
- To 100%
- 29.4h 1.8x the story
- Finish
- 13% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 40
Price and sales
- Sales
- 75 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $2.24 June 2015
- Sale every
- 42d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 32 now
- Cheaper than
- 22% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 97% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
65% start to 13% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 75 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 79 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Bard's Tale Trilogy ($14.99, scores 90) beats it on value, while it beats Legend of Grimrock 2 ($23.99, scores 77).
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $17.10. It costs $14.99.
More about Legend of Grimrock
Critics scored it 82. Players sit 11 points higher at 93 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 13 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 16.5-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. None of the 432 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 76 percent of the 334 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 19 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
Really awesome storytelling without even a word spoken in game. Amazing puzzles and dungeon crawling experience with tons of secrets.
2 more reviews
This reminds me of the good old days playing Dungeon Crawlers (Eye of the beholder) on my old comp, some of the puzzles were confusing but I got around them, only one i think I had to look up, overall a good game based on the old Dungeon Crawlers, with a modern look.
I'd ultimately give this game a 5/10 - but the game wasn't mediocre, it had very strong positives and very strong negatives. World design and atmosphere were amazing. Puzzles were fun and satisfying to navigate and solve. I only had to cheat once, and I'm going to blame my dyslexia - I had the correct solution to a puzzle, and just read the words in a clue in the wrong order! DOH! The downside for me was combat. It...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Use the Dungeon Editor to build entirely new adventures and challenges for other players to solve.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Legend of Grimrock scores 87/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/207170/legend-of-grimrockReviews 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 13, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.