Wall World

Wall World

Worth it · Roguelike · 2023

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $6.99.

Length
11.8h
Value
$0.59/hr
Reviews
91% positive
No price makes it a BANGER.

Recent reviews trending down: 77% over the last 30 days against 91% all-time.

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
77% ($1.60)
Deepest seasonal cut
85% ($1.04)
Last discount ended
4 days ago

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
11.8h
typical playtime (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
21.7h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$0.59
price ÷ typical playtime
Price
$6.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
91%
12,675 reviews, as of Sep 19
Players
750K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2023

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 or equvalent, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.

Explore the mysterious Wall World on your giant robospider: mine for valuable resources, upgrade your equipment to fight off hordes of monsters, and discover exotic biomes in-between attacks. Will you be able to survive and learn the secrets of the Wall World?
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Raising the score
Reviews91% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 90% after the small-sample adjustment
MonetizationNone
No in-game purchases. Paid DLC exists and is not docked
Holding it back
Reach750K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
Recent reviews77% (30 days)
Trending down vs lifetime, a small dip
For context
Value$0.59/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
Length12 hours
Typical playtime on HowLongToBeat. Endless games score on players, so hours stay out of it
Refunds7 of 800 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

March 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $1.04. 32 discounts in the 3 years on record. They run about 70 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 4 days ago.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 16 percent on value. It is cheaper than 73 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 80 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Gnomes ($4.99, scores 78) beats it on value, while it beats Necrosmith ($2.99, scores 66).

Players rate it 91 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 77 percent. Something recent has soured the room. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 7 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2024 to September 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 698 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 558 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 60 percent of the 708 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.

At 11.8 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.

The drop-off

92% start to 4% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

205 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 15:46 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

Wall World is a neat game with a great pixel art style. The core gameplay loop of mining, running up and down the wall fighting enemies and looking for the next mine is fun. There is only one thing I would note as a weak point and that is not being able to safe mid run. This broke the game for me a bit. I needed a break after about 45 minutes and lost all progress of that run. If you aren't time restricted, this is...
RoborowskiRecommendedafter 7.4h3 found this helpfulRead on Steam
Fairly short game but incredibly done. Starts out pretty difficult .,.. but thats the rogue lite aspect, 0 chance of winning until after a few runs then it gets alot easier when you figure how to balance mining to wall climbing. Dome keeper wave defense, with a steam world dig exploration/mining and timed exploration. Must get if you like either of those 2 types, if not still recommend!
CiddzRecommendedafter 9.7h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Wall World scores 76/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2187290/wall-world
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Reviews 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 19, price as of Oct 1.

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Details

DeveloperAlawar
PublisherAlawar
GenreRoguelike
Released2023
Achievements24