Ultros
Skip · Roguelike · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 44, under the fair line, at $24.99.
- Length
- 11.1h
- Value
- $2.25/hr
- Reviews
- 77% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 60% ($9.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 75% ($6.24)
- Last discount ended
- 14 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GT 750M, 6 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
ULTROS is a psychedelic metroidvania where you wake up stranded on The Sarcophagus — a cosmic uterus holding an ancient, demonic being. Trapped in the loop of a black hole, you will have to explore The Sarcophagus and meet its inhabitants to understand the part you play...
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
The value story
August 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $6.24. Its cuts run 60 percent off as a rule. There have been 29 in the 3 years tracked, about 4 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 61 percent. Ghost Song ($19.99, scores 55) outscores it, and so does Timespinner ($19.99, scores 66). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
This site sampled 453 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 11 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written February 2024 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 698 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 51 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 51 percent of the 114 reviews written there were positive, against 77 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 11.1 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 28, 2.6 times as much.
At 11.1 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
43% start to 12% finishA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
7 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 02:51 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This game was made for exactly me. The designers had one person in mind when they made it. ME. The combat is good but not too deep. There's combat, but it's not about that. This game is about "exploration". Exploration of the environments and the mechanics. Each cycle you learn more and can do more and never once was I just "stuck" trying to figure out what to do. I just kept... stumbling into a new idea or a new...
Perhaps one of the most criminally misunderstood games of all time though likely intentionally, the facade may be too effective at doing its job. Ultros is a strategy game about environmental manipulation and planning. It presents itself as a standard Metroidvania adventure with a reset gimmick and can even be played entirely as such, but that isn't the game. It is horrifying to imagine that anyone would choose to...
Visually beautiful game, everything else is awful. Don't waste your money or time.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Ultros scores 44/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2386310/ultrosReviews 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, price as of Oct 1.
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