Rift of the NecroDancer
BANGER · RPG · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $19.99.
- Length
- 4.7h
- Value
- $4.25/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 5 seasonal sales on record.
- Next sale
- Autumn Sale, Oct 1 to 8
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 30% ($13.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 50% ($9.99)
- Last discount ended
- yesterday
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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Minimum on the Steam store: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 or AMD Radeon R7 240, 1GB VRAM. Windows only.
The NecroDancer's back in an all-new rhythm game! Dragged into a strange new world, Cadence must engage in musical combat with monsters surging through the Rift! Face pulse-pounding Rhythm Rifts where every beat is a battle, all set to an original soundtrack by Danny Baranowsky & friends.
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 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $6.99. Its cuts run 30 percent off as a rule. There have been 15 in the 2 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended yesterday.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Crypt of the NecroDancer ($14.99, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats Melody's Escape ($9.99, scores 69).
$21.99 is where it would stop being a BANGER. Today it is $19.99.
This site sampled 646 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 24 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written February 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 962 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 17 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 4.7 hours. Doing everything runs 22, 4.7 times as long.
At 4.7 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
89% start to <1% 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
About 124 players at once, as of Sep 24.
Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
so, i got this game last year around a month after its release; i had really no prior experience with rhythm games at all, but something about the style of it and the mechanics of the notes just seemed appealing to me. i've held off really reviewing rift because back then i didn't really have much meaningful to say due to my lack of experience. but now, i've gained experience with some multiple rhythm games, as well...
At the end of the day this is Crypt of the Necrodancer in a Guitar Hero format. This is by no means a bad thing. Genuinely this game is solid. Played story mode first... game is by no means easy, but the game gives you a lot of tools to learn. Multiple accessibility options that remove visual clutter, visual affects, and a practice mode that you can adjust based on where you want in a song so you can practice that...
Rift of the Necrodancer has made me want to throw my PC across the room in rage, but you should still buy it.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Rift of the NecroDancer scores 87/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2073250/rift-of-the-necrodancerReviews 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 Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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