Brutal Legend
Worth it · Action · 2013
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $14.99, a BANGER if it drops to $9.04.
- Length
- 9.3h
- Value
- $1.61/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 512 MB GeForce 220, Radeon 4550, Intel HD 3000 Graphics, 8 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Brütal Legend is an action-adventure that marries visceral action combat with open-world freedom. Set in a universe somewhere between Lord of the Rings and Spinal Tap, it’s a fresh take on the action/driving genre, which in this case is full of imitation cover bands, demons intent on enslaving humanity and Heavy metal tunes.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.49, set in November 2015. It has been discounted 74 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 6 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 6 weeks. The math puts its BANGER price at $9.04. The record reaches that level 73 times.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. The nearest things to it, Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name ($49.99, scores 60) and Psychonauts 2 ($59.99, scores 64), are both worse buys on this math.
80 from critics against 93 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
5 of the 551 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 89 percent of the 1,401 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 9.3 hours. Doing everything runs 25, 2.7 times as long.
At 9.3 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
68% start to 2% 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
36 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
don't normally review but with the passing of Tim curry and a tall margarita felt the need to point out this good game, not great but defiantly good if you love metal and can get through a mid but passable rts you'll find a really beautiful world and some of the coolest voice acting with one of the best soundtracks in gaming so here's to Lemmy Ozzy and Tim thanks for the memories.
A FLAWED MASTERPIECE!! Going into the game knowing that it's a RTS game and NOT a Hack-and-Slash is vital to appreciate the experience. Most RTS games have mouse-and-keyboard controls, but this is first game I've seen to effortlessly pull off using a controller. That said, it did take me a few tries to really get my hands dirty with the game, despite being a big heavy metal fan. But once I did, this became one of my...
Weird to say this, but I DO recommend this game even though I think the gameplay is bad. It is heavily carried by charming characters, the fully-realized metal album cover aesthetic, and a great soundtrack. Would not recommend getting it at anywhere near full price just because I found the gameplay so unenjoyable. The RTS/action hybrid stuff just doesn't work. The RTS aspect is really shallow, but also requires tons...
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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Brutal Legend scores 76/100 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/225260/brutal-legendThe 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 12, price as of Sep 24.
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