Rock of Ages
Worth it · Action · 2011
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99, a BANGER if it drops to $4.73.
- Length
- 4.1h
- Value
- $2.44/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1.5 GB of memory, 1.2 GB of storage. Windows only.
A rock-solid combination of rock-rolling action, deep strategy, and captivating art and music from different ages of history, this is a game of crush or be crushed!
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The value story
June 2015 is where it bottomed out, at $0.99. It has been discounted 58 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks. It becomes a BANGER at $4.73, a level the record has reached 47 times.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 2 percent on value. It is pricier than 74 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Orcs Must Die! 2 ($3.74, scores 89) beats it on value, while it beats Rock of Ages 2: Bigger & Boulder™ ($14.99, scores 55).
Critics scored it 74. Players sit 18 points higher at 92 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data says about 11 percent of players ever finish it. On a 4.1-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. This site sampled 388 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 82 percent of the 937 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 28 percent of everything written about it.
4.1 hours to finish it, 12 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.9 times the campaign.
The drop-off
84% start to 11% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
2 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
A super fun time, with great gameplay and a truly unique and distinct visual style reminiscent of Monty Python. Love the look, love the idea, love the bosses, love the humour, love the game. Definitely something worth checking out, and something I strongly recommend.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Rock of Ages scores 72/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/22230/rock-of-agesThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 4, price as of Sep 24.
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