Taboo Trial
Fair · Roguelike · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 1.3h
- Value
- $11.53/hr
- Reviews
- 83% positive
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely between Oct 6 and Oct 19, at about $8.99 (40% off). Calls like this were right 80% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks. Its own discounts have started about 44 days apart.
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 40% ($8.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 45% ($8.24)
- Last discount ended
- 13 days ago
Watch it for a saleSources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 970 or AMD Radeon R9 290 or Intel Arc A380, 20 GB of storage. Windows only.
In the rogue action game "Taboo Trial", you will play as a young female warrior from the Norse mythology, who can transform into multiple cute and sexy female warriors. In the visually stunning 3D world, you will use your combat skills to uncover the truth behind the Twilight of the Gods.
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
December 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $8.24. 35 discounts in the 3 years on record. They run about 30 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 13 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 43 percent on value. Among the games that feel like it, 嗜血印 Bloody Spell ($24.99, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats Book of Yog Idle RPG (free, scores 15).
This site sampled 578 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 71 percent of the 352 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 21 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
93% start to 7% 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
12 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 13:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
It gets really grindy afterawhile. There's the ability to make big dps numbers but there's not enough variety of enemies to make grinding that unless you're really interested.
Stay away, no updates or communication from the devs since 06/2024. - - - - Very fun roguelike, but later in the permanent progression it becomes ridiculously complicated with runesets which imitate Diablo. At that point I stopped playing because of the complexity and, more importantly, the time investment needed to grind what you want. Fun for around 10h though. If you really want to buy at this point, wait for a...
Very good game. Take BPM, Stellar Blade, and Senran Kagura, and stir them in a pot. This is the result. Combat is fluid and fun. Looking at older reviews, some things have changed, or maybe people were just wrong. You can give as much holy water as you want between rounds. Zero problems with performance on my laptop. Progression isn't hard. You can dodge cancel out of anything and everything with audio and visual...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Taboo Trial scores 57/100 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/2455060/taboo-trialReviews 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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