Shadow of the Depth
Skip · Roguelike · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 23, under the fair line, at $14.99.
- Length
- 2h
- Value
- $7.50/hr
- Reviews
- 70% of 478 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 6 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
Shadow of the Depth is a top-down action Roguelite game. Delve into a dungeon world of light and shadow to eradicate the monsters that ravage your home. Be prepared to step into the abyss before you!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Nvidia 450 GTS / Radeon HD 5750 or better, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
20 discounts in the 2 years on record, a median of 30 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 10 days ago.
It is less well reviewed than 83 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Dreamscaper ($4.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Dungeons of Edera ($14.99, scores 19).
More about Shadow of the Depth
This site sampled 436 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 6 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2024 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,174 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 136 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 76 percent of the 103 reviews written there were positive, against 70 percent overall, and those are 23 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 2 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
97% 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
What players say
Absolutely love this game, but no updates for well over a year now. Don't buy, not finished.
2 more reviews, 2 not recommended
The skills seems very uninspired, the game feels good for a couple of hours but it has no legs.
It is fun but it needs more polish. Like for example I don't why, but Phyllis (the archer) doesn't have footsteps sounds. And there's a lot of small jank like that. But on discount it's worth it. I'll change my review if the devs iron out some of these issues.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Shadow of the Depth scores 23/100 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/2100150/shadow-of-the-depthReviews 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.