Zorbus
Fair · Roguelike · 2022
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $3.74. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 9.5h
- Value
- $0.39/hr
- Reviews
- 91% of 380 positive
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Buy now or wait
It is 25% 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
Zorbus is a fantasy-themed, tile-based, turn-based, traditional roguelike game.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 297 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
24 discounts in the 3 years on record, a median of 30 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today's $3.74 at 25 percent off still sits 50 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
On value it sits in the top 26 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 86 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 76 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Rift Wizard ($14.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats Desktop Dungeons ($14.99, scores 59).
More about Zorbus
This site sampled 335 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 5 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written September 2022 to August 2026.
The drop-off
22% start to 4% 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
- Players online
- 2 when we last checked, on Oct 13, 07:53 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
First, it's $3.50 on sale right now, and my coffee this morning cost twice that. Even if you hate it you didn't spend a ton of money on it. A very well-designed traditional roguelike. The pixel graphics are pretty and there are a lot of options during character creation. If you look at the other reviews you'll get a pretty good idea of what the game is like and why people love or hate it. It is punishingly hard and...
2 more reviews
Absolutely brilliant Roguelike. I haven't managed to play anywhere near as much as I'd like yet, but every time I dive in it blows my mind. It's the only Roguelike that feels like a living, breathing environment. A special callout has to made for the incredible sound design. It's at once deeply creepy and completely hilarious at the same time! Just fabulous.
I have spent a lot of time playing this game. A concerning amount of time if you consider that I bought it less than a month ago. I don't have too much experience with traditional roguelikes, my past with the genre is mostly limited to a period a year or so ago when I got really into Angband for a bit, but a little while ago I got an itch for something similar. I was mostly looking at FOSS options and initially...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Zorbus scores 66/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2125420/zorbusReviews 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.