Crypt of the NecroDancer
BANGER · Roguelike · 2015
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $14.99.
- Length
- 13.9h
- Value
- $1.08/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1004 MB of memory, 512MB VRAM, 1.6 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.49. That was June 2025. Its cuts run 80 percent off as a rule. There have been 116 in the 12 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was this month, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 3 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 74 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including BPM: BULLETS PER MINUTE ($19.99, scores 76) and You Must Build A Boat ($4.99, scores 56).
Critics scored it 87. Players sit 8 points higher at 95 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 18 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written November 2020 to September 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 355 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 259 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 83 percent of the 3,134 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 13.9 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 393, 28 times as much.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 13.9 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
41% start to <1% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 13.9-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
114 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
You have a higher chance to win the lottery 10 times while being attacked by a shark and getting hit in the head by a falling coconut, all while being struck by lightning, rather than 100%ing this game
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Crypt of the NecroDancer scores 88/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/247080/crypt-of-the-necrodancerThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 13, price as of Sep 24.
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