Path of Exile
Worth it · RPG · 2013
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
PLAY IT.
Worth it at free.
- Length
- 30.4h
- Price
- Free to play
- Reviews
- 89% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 78% over the last 30 days against 89% all-time.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti or ATI Radeon HD 7850, 40 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
You are an Exile, struggling to survive on the dark continent of Wraeclast, as you fight to earn power that will allow you to exact your revenge against those who wronged you. Path of Exile is an online Action RPG set in a dark fantasy world. The game is completely free and will never be pay-to-win.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 92 percent of its genre. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Path of Exile 2 ($29.99, scores 37) and Diablo® IV ($12.49, scores 15).
Steam's global achievement data says about 18 percent of players ever finish it. On a 30.4-hour game, that is a lot of evenings most people never spend. Players rate it 89 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 78 percent. Something recent has soured the room.
Finishing takes 30.4 hours; clearing it takes 802, which is 26 times the campaign.
Still 4.7K concurrent players, 13 years in.
It is still busy. 4.7K players were in it at once at the last check, across 81 days of tracking. Free to start. It takes its money later, through cosmetic and currency.
The drop-off
49% start to 18% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
4,694 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
Cite this score
Embed the live badge, copy the line, or download the card.
Path of Exile scores 75/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/238960/path-of-exileThe 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 10.
A number here look wrong? Tell me what it got wrong and I will look at the inputs behind it.