Soulslinger: Envoy of Death
Skip · Roguelike · 2025
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 11, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 7.9h 16.5h to 100%
- Value
- $2.53/hr
- Reviews
- 63% of 693 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely between Oct 27 and Nov 9, at about $4.59 (77% off). Calls like this were right 78% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks. Its own discounts have started about 44 days apart.
Discounted in each of its last 6 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 9 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
You are a gunslinger in limbo, involved in a gritty war against "The Cartel", a ruthless organization harvesting souls to break free of the shackles of the afterlife. Grow stronger with each new run, gather the essence of lost souls to take on the biggest threats in this rogue-lite FPS!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 1060 / AMD Radeon RX 580, 30 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
30 discounts in the 3 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.
It is pricier than 77 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 93 percent. On the same math Ziggurat 2 ($24.99, scores 70) and Delver ($14.99, scores 65) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about Soulslinger: Envoy of Death
8 of the 466 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2023 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 1,174 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 77 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 55 percent of the 142 reviews written there were positive, against 63 percent overall, and those are 30 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 7.9 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 17, 2.1 times as much.
The drop-off
86% start to 9% 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
What players say
Feels like the focus on this game are in the wrong areas. Needed less voice acting and pretty graphics and more focus on combat fluidity, game balance, and controller support (why can't I customize XY sensitivity separately). Your only defensive option is a very short dash that gets stuck on any pebble in the environment while also having like a 4sec cooldown. Why is it a problem? Lets see, hordes of enemies each...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Overall? Its a decent game, its fun, chaotic, and challenging. The Issue? half the time I die it doesn't feel like it's my fault for chosing upgrades or paths wrong or anything like that, it feels like I die half the time because it's just the janky game. 1. later in the game in a hidden unlockable area there are flying enemies that dont take damage from shooting their wings, its only the center mass which is damn...
I played for 5 hours straight first time in. Completely enjoyed the experience and is a keeper!
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Soulslinger: Envoy of Death scores 11/100 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/2429240/soulslinger-envoy-of-deathReviews 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 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.