Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Ultimate Edition
Fair · Action · 2013
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $29.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 18.9h
- Value
- $1.59/hr
- Reviews
- 81% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Direct X9 compatible video card 512Mb Ram, 15 GB of storage. Windows only.
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Ultimate Edition is the complete edition of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, a dark and vivid new re-imagining of the Castlevania mythology. It is the end of days and ungodly powers isolate the Earth.
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The value story
June 2017 is where it bottomed out, at $5.99. Its cuts run 80 percent off as a rule. There have been 78 in the 13 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 12 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 11 percent on value. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 82 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 ($39.99, scores 55) beats it on value, while it beats Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Mirror of Fate HD ($14.99, scores 43).
5 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2022 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 53 percent of the 887 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 18.9 hours. Doing everything runs 46, 2.4 times as long.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
The drop-off
90% 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
38 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
Lords of Shadows is a pretty mediocre God of War clone. It does not have any of the classic Castlevania gameplay structures nor is anything about it particularly Castlevania at all. The DLC makes a painful attempt to tie it into Castlevania in a way that makes it feel like the main game was a completely separate game that they just stuck the franchise name onto, even though we know that was not the case during...
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow is a pretty mediocre hack and slash with gameplay that never really clicked with me. The combat feels clunky and lacks the satisfying weight you'd expect from this type of game. There are plenty of abilities and upgrades to unlock, but fighting enemies quickly becomes repetitive, and a lot of the encounters start to blend together. The bigger problem is the world itself. The game strips...
This game is absolutely bad ass. Gabriel is a bad ass. The voice acting is bad ass. The musical score is bad ass. The Narration by Sir Patrick Stewart is bad ass. The level design is bad ass. The action is bad ass. The enemies and bosses are bad ass. PLAY THIS GAME!
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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Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Ultimate Edition scores 52/100 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/234080/castlevania-lords-of-shadow-ultimate-editionThe 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 16, price as of Sep 24.
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