Bleak Sword DX
Skip · Action · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 42, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Length
- 4.8h 6.2h to 100%
- Value
- $2.08/hr
- Reviews
- 77% of 702 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
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
Discover and destroy increasingly horrifying creatures across an oppressive lofi world, wielding fierce weaponry and powerful magic in this pocket-sized action adventure.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Radeon HD 4770, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 24 times in the 3 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 10 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 24 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 68 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 71 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Anomaly Agent ($11.99, scores 83) and The Mageseeker: A League of Legends Story™ ($29.99, scores 59) both outscore it.
More about Bleak Sword DX
Steam's global achievement data puts about 6 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 4.8-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 446 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 64 percent of the 204 reviews written there were positive, against 77 percent overall, and those are 32 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 4.8 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
90% start to 6% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 10, 04:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I managed to get halfway through the third world, unlocking some rare achievements along the way. How did I manage that? Well, this game is pretty repetitive and boring, with the addition of weird and unforgiving block-counter timing - so I just managed to endure this longer than most of the players. I spent half of my playing time trying to figure out the controls so that I would get hit less when trying to block...
1 more review, not recommended
This game has a ton of wasted potential to sum it up in a single word. When I first played the demo, I was super excited to play the full game and after finishing the main campaign I can't explain my feelings with a better word than disappointment. To understand of why I feel that way you need to know two main things: 1-The game core mechanic is parrying 2-The game "Tries" to encourage aggressive play style but the...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Bleak Sword DX 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/2193050/bleak-sword-dxReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.