Hunted: The Demon’s Forge™

Hunted: The Demon’s Forge™

Skip · Shooter · 2011

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

SKIP IT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

It scores 46, under the fair line, at $4.99.

Cost per hourS
$0.42/hr
Reviews▼
76% of 1,437
Critics
60 players 16 higher
Genre rank
Top 45% Shooter

Holding it back: Reviews

Why
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Time and effort

Main story
12h
To 100%
16h 1.3x the story

Price and sales

Sales
70 on record
Typical cut
70% off
Steam low
$1.24 June 2017
Sale every
53d last October 2026
Lowest now $1.34 at Fanaticalall-time low $1.06 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
0 now
Cheaper than
72% of its genre
Better reviewed
43% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story

The value story

It has been discounted 70 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 70 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Its score puts it in the top 45 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 72 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Darksiders III ($5.99, scores 47) beats it on value, while it beats Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty ($39.99, scores 0).

More about Hunted: The Demon’s Forge™

Critics scored it 60. Players sit 16 points higher at 76 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.

Of the 389 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 46 percent of the 270 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 24 percent of everything written about it.

Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 12 hours it is short enough to finish on one.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Cost per hour$0.42/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Refunds3 of 389 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

What players say

My friend says this was the worst game he's ever played. But how can that be true? You play as Mr. Inbetween... oh, but I guess he had to play as the elf... nobody likes elves... everyone wants to be the man... the man... everyone... just ignore this games community page.
A_Stranger2256Recommendedafter 2.0hSep 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews
Hunted: The Demon's Forge is a jank RPG from 2011 that is halfway to being a good game. With voice acting from Laura Bailey, Lucy Lawless and Graham McTavish in the main roles we're treated to surprisingly competent work in that department for what is clearly a low budget bargain bin title. The important female characters are hilariously oversexualised, the gameplay is super basic, graphics are solid for the time...
IthaquaRecommendedafter 15hAug 2026Read on Steam
I wish there was a so so option on Steam, this game is right at that 5/10 spot. Nothing great, nothing bad either, a good time killer. I will still recomend just for the price and the nostalgia factor.
TylermaxxRecommendedafter 4.6hJul 2026Read on Steam

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

About the game

It will take the combined efforts of two great warriors to explore menacing dungeons, overgrown ruins, and downtrodden towns … and discover the secrets of the Demon’s Forge.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 512 MB video RAM or better (GeForce 9800 GTX or better/Radeon HD 4330 or better), 12 GB of storage. Windows only.

No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Hunted: The Demon’s Forge™ scores 46/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/22450/hunted-the-demon-s-forge
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Reviews 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 Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+16
Critics60
Players76
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 1,437 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperinXile Entertainment
PublisherBethesda Softworks
GenreShooter
Released2011
Players350Kowners, SteamSpy estimate