Scarlet Tower
Fair · Roguelike · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 5h
- Value
- $1.00/hr
- Reviews
- 81% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 25% ($3.74)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 30% ($3.49)
- Last discount ended
- 38 days ago
Watch it for a saleSources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 128mb Video Memory, capable of Shader Model 2.0+, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.
Hunt during the day, be hunted during the NIGHT! Scarlet Tower is a gothic horror casual game with roguelike and RPG elements, like talent trees, classes, familiars and more!
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 $2.49. That was June 2026. Its cuts run 25 percent off as a rule. There have been 28 in the 4 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 5 weeks ago.
On value it sits in the top 48 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 86 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Boneraiser Minions ($4.99, scores 85) beats it on value, while it beats Asgard's Fall — Viking Survivors ($9.99, scores 49).
5 of the 627 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 78 percent of the 285 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
88% 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
Players
5 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 01:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Once I found that the stats were not just a display and they could be upgraded, then everything else fell into place and progression made sense. After that the game was pretty great!
When a gameplay loop is built well, it becomes very hard to leave the next run for later I liked Scarlet Tower because it does not settle for just copying the formula of surviving waves and stacking upgrades. The foundation is familiar, yes, but the gothic tone, the day and night cycle, the classes, and the familiars give it a much stronger identity than I expected. What stood out most to me is the constant sense of...
I don't think I've ever played a more frustrating Survivors-like. The aesthetics are great with the pixel sprites looking clean, the music is energetic and high effort, and a lot of the upgrades turn characters from one off-runs into your own personal character as you upgrade their stats, gear, and abilities. However, that's where the problems start. First off, this game tells you nothing, no tutorials, no guides...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Scarlet Tower scores 53/100 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/2181720/scarlet-towerReviews 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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