Brutal Legend
Worth it · Action · 2013
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 85% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$14.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$2.9980% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.61/hr
- ReviewsS
- 93% of 20,635
- Critics
- 80 players 13 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 2% Action
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 9.3h
- To 100%
- 25.1h 2.7x the story
- Achievements
- 59
Price and sales
- Sales
- 76 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $1.49 November 2015
- Sale every
- 45d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 26 now
- Recent reviews
- 97% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 13% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 98% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
68% start to 2% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 76 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 6 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $9.03. The record reaches that level 75 times.
Its score puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 87 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Overlord™: Raising Hell ($9.99, scores 78) beats it on value, while it beats Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name ($49.99, scores 60).
More about Brutal Legend
80 from critics against 93 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
5 of the 557 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 89 percent of the 1,419 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.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 19 days ago.
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
What players say
One of my favorite games of all time. Played it as a teenager on the 360 and I've finished it again as an adult.
2 more reviews
Played a little of this as a young teenager but fell off pretty quickly once it got to the strategy sections of the game. Coming back to it I don't actually mind those sections nowadays besides the very last one. This game has some great stuff going for it like the soundtrack, setting, and the voice actors. It also has some pretty meh / negative stuff happening though. The game is extremely repetitive. Even the main...
Asked a hiker what part of the mountain I was on. He said brutal legend, so thats how I knew I was at the peak.
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About the game
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.
Minimum specs
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.
Cite this score
Brutal Legend scores 76/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/225260/brutal-legendReviews 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 5, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.