SULFUR
Fair · Roguelike · 2024 · Early Access
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $24.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 15h
- Value
- $1.67/hr
- Reviews
- 88% positive
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely between Oct 9 and Oct 22, at about $12.49 (50% off). Calls like this were right 73% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks. Its own discounts have started about 45 days apart.
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 26% ($18.49)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 44% ($13.99)
- Last discount ended
- 23 days ago
Watch it for a saleSources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GTX 970 or equivalent, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
SULFUR is a modern old-school action-adventure: Outsmart enemies, find treasure, improve weapons, harness powers. Delve deeper, find answers, make it end.
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
It has never been cheaper than $12.49. That was August 2026. 19 discounts in the 2 years on record. They run about 26 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
Value puts it in the top 34 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 70 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Gunfire Reborn ($19.99, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats Blightbound ($19.99, scores 12).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 19 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written September 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 64 percent of the 558 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
At 15 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
75% start to 5% finishA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
466 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 20:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I like this game, but I bought it with glee when I saw so many customisation options for many weapons. I was sure there will be many viable ways to build your weapon to win. I was wrong. More than 80% of scrolls that induce major change to weapon is just bad and makes weapons worse than empty upgrade slot. There are many scopes/sights in game, sadly they have uneven stats attached so you either roll with best stat...
Sulfur! I've got too much I want to say about this game, I'm going to try and keep it simple. I've completed the game on hardcore and have dabbled with a lot of the games mechanics. The game is good, if you want a game about messing around with goofy firearms that'd make Kel-tec blush? This is it. There's so many creative options with their own little quirks and ways of functioning I don't think I've ever gotten...
A fully-fledged game in almost every aspect. Amazing artstyle, mechanics, and a fully-fleshed out gameplay loop, this game is more engaging than like 90% of modern shooters. Most of the game concepts are easy to understand, such as enchanting, cooking and looting, but that doesn't mean they are insignificant. As a matter of fact, you can spend hours engaging with only one of these aspects of the game if you wish...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
SULFUR scores 63/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2124120/sulfurReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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