Kalinur
BANGER · Action · 2022
The verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $0.69.
- Length
- 2.6h 4.4h to 100%
- Value
- $0.27/hr
- Reviews
- 96% of 500 positive
Watch this gameAlready a BANGER on sale. Pick a lower price.
Buy now or wait
It is 65% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- 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
Defeat the mage Kalinur and bring peace back to the kingdom in this mini metroidvania with a lot of action.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel UHD, AMD VEGA, 174 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 38 discounts in the 4 years tracked, the median cut is 60 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $0.69 at 65 percent off still sits 17 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is cheaper than 88 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Leap Year ($3.99, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats Odallus: The Dark Call ($3.49, scores 76).
$5.82 is where it would stop being a BANGER.
More about Kalinur
This site sampled 317 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 95 percent of the 237 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 50 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
72% start to 13% 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
This game was fun! (for the price) It is dead simple. There are basically no secrets, and nothing out of the ordinary in this game at all. It's almost as if it was intended to be as generic as possible. But sometimes that's not such a bad thing. After playing through Prince of Persia Lost Crown, an ultra simple and incredibly easy Metroidvania was kind of welcome. I also liked that the attack happens instantly and...
2 more reviews
Lightweight 2-3 hour Metroidvania, but quite fun for that amount of time. Not very difficult. Any reviews that complain about "lack of healing" are by people who suck at this kind of game. I mean they have to SERIOUSLY suck to complain about that. I think I died 3-5 times total and got all achievements.
This is a good solid game. It does nothing especially unique but it does the basics well. I would recommend this to anyone looking for a short game that can be finished in a weekend. Fluid movements, not too hard, not too easy.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Kalinur scores 90/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2085800/kalinurReviews 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 Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.