Her Name Was Fire
Skip · Roguelike · 2022
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 30, under the fair line, at $3.99.
- Length
- 2.3h
- Value
- $1.73/hr
- Reviews
- 73% of 297 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 10 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
Her Name Was Fire is a Tarotpunk twin stick roguelike where you progressively unlock spells and upgrades to defeat hordes of void creatures. Survive the 5 stages of grief and vanquish the Major Allegories.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce 700 Series or Similar, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 32 discounts in the 4 years tracked, the median cut is 20 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 10 days ago.
It is cheaper than 91 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 77 percent. Among the games that feel like it, NIMRODS ($9.99, scores 59) beats it on value, while it beats FatalZone ($6.99, scores 17).
More about Her Name Was Fire
3 of the 284 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 64 percent of the 129 reviews written there were positive, against 73 percent overall, and those are 45 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
53% 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
What players say
I like the gameplay, but it seems to crash in specific scenarios when playing on Windows 11, I haven't noticed issues when playing on Linux; a very similar senario is listed in bug reports forum, it has not been fixed and the report is dated for last year, if the issue is resolved I will change my recommendation, provided I don't find another crash bug.
2 more reviews, 2 not recommended
Well, it is a horde survivors-like (-like), but a not a good horde survivors game/clone, I don't like it b/c: - holding a button to cast/attack / no auto-attack is simply terrible - plus, popups / new skill windows interrupt this casting just to add insult to injury - quirky punishing skills - an extremely slow grind and unrewarding runs, unlike most horde survivors games that let you increase your passive bonuses...
A visually striking roguelike, bringing style to the genre that i find to be very pleasing to the eye, some really interesting ideas, and an unfortunate verdict: the game is no longer receiving updates. It needs balancing, and some new content or perhaps a few different variations to give it some more substance, but instead we're left with.... A frankly, disappointing roguelike experience. I think the game could...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Her Name Was Fire scores 30/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2083840/her-name-was-fireReviews 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 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.