Sword of the Stars: The Pit
Fair · Roguelike · 2013
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
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- 83% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 512 MB DX compatible card, 1.4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
A fun, fast, light-hearted, turn-based RPG, where the tradition of old school dungeon-diving games meets the sci-fi Sword of the Stars universe!
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.39. That was December 2013. 35 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 8 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 36 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 63 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Cogmind ($24.99, scores 78) beats it on value, while it beats Darkest Dungeon® II ($39.99, scores 37).
69 from critics against 83 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
This site sampled 218 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 57 percent of the 110 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
The drop-off
87% start to <1% finishMost players never reach the end. 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.
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Sword of the Stars: The Pit scores 58/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/233700/sword-of-the-stars-the-pitThe 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 7, price as of Sep 22.
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