Path of Exile
Worth it · RPG · 2013
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
PLAY IT.
Worth it, and it costs nothing.
- PriceS
- Free to play
- ReviewsA
- 89% of 250,198
- Critics
- 86 players 3 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 4% RPG
Holding it back: Monetization
Time and effort
- Main story
- 30.3h
- To 100%
- 801.8h 26.5x the story
- Finish
- 18% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 127
Players and genre
- Online
- 2,085 now
- Recent reviews
- 89% 30 days
- Better reviewed
- 93% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
48% start to 18% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Its score puts it in the top 4 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 93 percent of its genre. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Path of Exile 2 ($29.99, scores 38) and Diablo® IV ($49.99, scores 15).
It is still busy. 2.1K players were online when we last checked, on Nov 6, 05:45 UTC, across 35 days of weekly checks. Free to start. It takes its money later, through cosmetic and currency.
More about Path of Exile
Steam's global achievement data puts about 18 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 30.3-hour game, that is a lot of evenings the rest never spend.
Finishing takes 30.3 hours; clearing it takes 802, which is 26 times the campaign.
250,198 reviews stand behind that percentage.
Buy now or wait
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
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.
Cite this score
Path of Exile scores 75/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/238960/path-of-exileReviews 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 Nov 3. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.