Rogue Legacy
Worth it · Roguelike · 2013
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $14.99.
- Length
- 16.4h
- Value
- $0.91/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, X1950 Pro, 7900 GT, 399 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Rogue Legacy is a genealogical rogue-"LITE" where anyone can be a hero. Each time you die, your child will succeed you. Every child is unique. One child might be colorblind, another might be a dwarf with vertigo. But that's OK, because no one is perfect, and you don't have to be to succeed.
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
It has never been cheaper than $1.49. That was December 2025. Its cuts run 80 percent off as a rule. There have been 76 in the 13 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 11 percent on value. It is pricier than 68 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 85 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Dead Cells ($24.99, scores 95) beats it on value, while it beats Vagante ($14.99, scores 73).
This site sampled 744 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 5 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 67 percent of the 1,308 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 16.4 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 39, 2.4 times as much.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
The drop-off
80% 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
18 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 07:45 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Yeah, it's a great game that invented a new way to present rogue-lite mehcanincs, pretty cool. I personally like the first game better than the second one. Everything here is on point.
Generational Game (literal) The Good [*]The concept of the game is just really fun, everytime you die your character just straight up dies, with an heir to continue the game, seeing the years pass by so quickly is kinda fun lol [*]The traits are a fun touch, but also absolutely hilarious. I like how they range from cosmetic and pointless, to absolutely run defining or unplayable lmao [*]Pretty solid variety of...
Yeah when you find a game on such big discount something is definitely wrong with it. And oh wow was I right about it. This is one of those games which is fun only to developer and no1 else. Movement is horrible, attacks are clunky and useless, every challenge room is comically bad (room with spiked floor with no jumping, and similar horrible ideas). Upgrades? Yeah they are useless and extremely expensive. Gathering...
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Cite this score
Rogue Legacy scores 79/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/241600/rogue-legacyReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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