Halls of Torment: Prelude

Halls of Torment: Prelude

Worth it · RPG · 2023

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

PLAY IT.

Worth it, and it costs nothing.

Length
5.6h
Price
Free to play
Reviews
93% positive
Length
5.6h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
61.8h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
Free
price ÷ main-story length
Price
Free
Reviews
93%
1,421 reviews, as of Sep 27
Released
2023

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel Iris Xe / AMD RX 480, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.

Slay hordes of terrifying monsters in this horde survival roguelite. Descend into the Halls of Torment where the Lords of the underworld await you. Treasures, magical trinkets, and a growing cast of heroes will grant you the power to vanquish these horrors from beyond. How long can you survive?
Description from the Steam store page.

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

What we assumed
  • Player count is unknown. We assumed a small player base, about 500 owners.
Raising the score
ValueFree
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews93% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 92% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
Length5.6 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
RefundsFree
A free game cannot be refunded, so the label never applies
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

On value it sits in the top 4 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 96 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Halls of Torment ($6.66, scores 87) beats it on value, while it beats Mini Healer ($7.99, scores 69).

5.6 hours to finish it, 62 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 11 times the campaign.

It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 5.6 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.

4 players were online in it when we last checked, on Oct 1, 05:51 UTC.

Players

4 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 05:51 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Halls of Torment: Prelude scores 72/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. Player count is unknown, so the score assumes a small player base; Steam shows 1,421 reviews, so it has at least that many owners. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2316660/halls-of-torment-prelude
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27.

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Details

DeveloperChasing Carrots
PublisherChasing Carrots
GenreRPG
Released2023