Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona
Skip · RPG · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 42, under the fair line, at $14.99.
- Length
- 11h 20h to 100%
- Value
- $1.36/hr
- Reviews
- 78% of 309 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
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About the game
Skelethrone is a challenging 2D action platformer with RPG elements inspired by games like Castlevania and Dark Souls.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 560 1GB or better, 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 20 times in the 2 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 41 percent, about 4 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 10 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 28 percent on value. It is pricier than 74 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 64 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Death's Gambit: Afterlife ($19.99, scores 52) beats it on value, while it beats Dark Devotion ($19.99, scores 35).
More about Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona
This site sampled 284 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2024 to August 2026.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 11 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
89% start to 2% 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'd hate to go negative on a single dev project, but unfortunately the game is just way too janky to recommend it. I do not think it's a good buy even on sale. What makes it even more sad for me is that the game clearly has genuine effort and interesting ideas put into it. There are lots of things in the game that could have been great if they were better implemented. For example, character progression has some...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
It starts out a little dull, then gets kinda good, then suddenly all the good parts of the game are put on hold while you are forced into a shockingly dull, confusing, and maybe buggy section called "The Abyss". There, you are expected to figure out how to even begin a horribly tedious coliseum subplot. I don't understand this decision at all. The area isn't interesting. It has no rizz at all. I would rather do...
Mixed feelings so far. Art, environments and NPCs are really awesome, but combat is not well telegraphed at all and the map layout does not follow natural progression. Still keen to try more of it. It is more like Death's Gambit than Blasphemous so far. For 2D Soulslike fans.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona scores 42/100 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/2139840/skelethrone-the-chronicles-of-ericonaReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.