Cursorblade

Cursorblade

Fair · Roguelike · 2023

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

BUY IT.

Fair at $1.99, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Nov 2023. Buy it now if you want it.

Length
1.2h
Value
$1.66/hr
Reviews
85% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.

Buy now or wait

The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 60% off today.

Discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.

Typical seasonal cut
45% ($2.74)
Deepest seasonal cut
60% ($1.99)

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
1.2h
typical playtime (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
3.6h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$1.66
price ÷ typical playtime
Price
$1.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
85%
1,044 reviews, as of Sep 27
Players
75K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2023

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 205 MB of storage. Windows only.

Cursorblade is a bullet hell game where you play as the cursor, fighting your way through waves of enemies. Combine weapons and items to become more powerful with your own unique builds. Slash, dodge, upgrade, and repeat!
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Holding it back
Reviews85% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach75K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$1.66/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead That is today's sale price. Normally $4.16/hr
Length1.2 hours
Typical playtime on HowLongToBeat. Endless games score on players, so hours stay out of it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds6 of 448 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

The lowest price on record is $1.99, set in June 2026. 14 discounts in the 3 years on record. They run about 45 percent off, roughly 12 weeks apart. Today's $1.99 at 60 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 39 percent on value. It is cheaper than 87 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 61 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Brotato ($4.99, scores 91) beats it on value, while it beats Slime 3K: Rise Against Despot ($4.99, scores 49).

This site sampled 448 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 6 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written November 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 76 percent of the 440 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 44 percent of everything written about it.

HowLongToBeat players log 1.2 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 4, 3.0 times as much.

The drop-off

61% start to 11% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

1 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 17:51 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

Fun and addicting little bullet hell game, that's actually quite fair. Your cursor becomes a blade and attacks enemies, that also attack you. After every wave you get to pick one of three random weapons that you can further level and after every other wave you can also pick a passive. A run isn't long and the gameplay is fluid. Nice timekiller - really enjoyed this one.
ta_taaRecommendedafter 4.5hAug 2026Read on Steam
CURSORBLADE , is a fairly challenging bullet-hell and simple rogue-like game where the character is your cursor. It is one of those game that just doesn't have quite enough items and weapon upgrades to really give you the highs and lows of a rogue-like. The bullet-hell is challenging, but not quite in the most satisfying way. Since SO many enemies start getting packed into the games, there is little skill on...
OceanPSRecommendedafter 7.6hJun 2026Read on Steam
This game feels shallow and unfinished, offering almost no meaningful progression or variety. Core features you'd expect from even the simplest rogue likes - like saving, build diversity, or evolving mechanics - are missing entirely. Character options are extremely limited, and most abilities add so little to a run that they may as well not exist. After about 30 minutes, you've effectively seen everything the game...
GhostyNot recommendedafter 3.2hJun 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Cursorblade scores 60/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2449040/cursorblade
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Reviews 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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Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperRealPeach
PublisherRealPeach
GenreRoguelike
Released2023
Achievements15