Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood

Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood

Skip · Roguelike · 2023

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 46, under the fair line, at $4.99.

Length
12.1h 55h to 100%
Value
$0.41/hr
Reviews
78% of 897 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

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

Holding it back
Reviews78% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach75K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$0.41/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds3 of 467 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Slash and survive a typical workday as Dracula's overworked and underappreciated servant! You'll have a bloody good time as you rampage through New Orleans to find fresh victims for your narcissistic boss.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670. Windows only.

The value story

The lowest price on record is $0.99, set in October 2026. It has gone on sale once in the 3 months tracked here, most recently in October 2026.

It is cheaper than 87 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Boneraiser Minions ($4.99, scores 85) beats it on value, while it beats Spellbook Demonslayers ($4.99, scores 31).

More about Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood

3 of the 467 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 73 percent of the 222 reviews written there were positive, against 78 percent overall, and those are 30 percent of everything written about it.

HowLongToBeat players log 12.1 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 55, 4.5 times as much.

At 12.1 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.

The drop-off

95% start to 1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

What players say

I had more fun than I expected watching the film, I'm having more fun with the game than I anticipated. I guess its cannon then. If you like the Vampire Survivors genre, this one is good.
SolarakRecommendedafter 2.3hJun 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
i dont know much about the show but its an epic brawler you play as renfield every thing wants dead you get upgrades like blood bubbles rats that explode bats that circle around you and other upgrades like more health run faster etc etc if you love brawlers its a must have
angel wolves IncorporatedRecommendedafter 2.3hApr 2026Read on Steam
Hit detection, movement and animations are so jank 99% of runs will end without you having any idea what hits you. With the way it's designed it would work better if there was a built in healing mechanic to offset the random hits that there is no way to see coming. With all the fx on the screen how are you supposed to see a bullet the size of a pixel? Progression tree is extremely basic and offers no real...
RatProxyNot recommendedafter 6.3h2 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood scores 46/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2354600/renfield-bring-your-own-blood
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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 28, price as of Oct 2. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperMega Cat Studios
PublisherSkybound Games
GenreRoguelike
Released2023
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements93