Talented
Worth it · Roguelike · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $5.99.
- Length
- 0.9h
- Value
- $6.66/hr
- Reviews
- 92% 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 6 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Last discount ended
- 18 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 246 MB of storage. Windows only.
Slay waves of spooky enemies for 20 nights to survive 'The Demonic Conveyor Belt'. Talented is an arcade roguelite with randomly generated skill trees. Choose your upgrades and abilities wisely and you might just make it out alive. Are you truly Talented?
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
The lowest price on record is $1.49, set in October 2023. Its cuts run 25 percent off as a rule. There have been 18 in the 3 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
On value it sits in the top 22 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 77 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 82 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Downwell ($2.99, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats Nomad Survival ($3.49, scores 60).
Of the 424 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 78 percent of the 222 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 0.9 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 212, 236 times as much.
The drop-off
98% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
14 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 15:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I know I had this as a highly recommended game. The game is both simple and challenging depending on which character you play as. The "infinite" talent tree is great and makes every build always different. The have levels of difficulty and soim extra challenges that add other stuff to the game. Would highly recommend.
The amount of content you can get out of Talented for 6$ is criminal. Dev deserves the most.
100 minutes in and it already feels repetitive enough that I don't feel like playing more of it. Imagine a standard idler game but instead of upgrading and waiting you're holding down down WASD. I can imagine that some might find it interesting but to me it just feels like I'm burning time. Setting the game speed to the max of 2x is a must.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Talented scores 72/100 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/2435090/talentedReviews 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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