Volgarr the Viking
Fair · Action · 2013
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 9.3h
- Value
- $1.07/hr
- Reviews
- 81% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 256MB, 205 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Return to the Golden Age of arcades with a hardcore action platformer that pulls no punches! Possesses all the hallmarks of true classics like Super Ghouls 'N Ghosts (SNES), Rastan Saga (Arcade), Castlevania (NES) and more with precise controls, high challenge, and meticulous design.
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
The lowest price on record is $0.99, set in August 2017. Its cuts run 80 percent off as a rule. There have been 61 in the 13 years tracked, about 11 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 11 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 8 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 74 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 82 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove ($39.99, scores 59) and Kero Blaster ($9.99, scores 63) both outscore it.
Steam's global achievement data says about 5 percent of players ever finish it. On a 9.3-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. This site sampled 300 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 70 percent of the 554 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 34 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 9.3 hours; clearing it takes 20, which is 2.2 times the campaign.
The drop-off
52% start to 5% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 9.3-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
2 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
I was less angry playing Ghouls and Goblins than this psychotic display of malicious intentionality
Really hard but fair game the controls are super tight and it looks great.Awesome little retro title
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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Volgarr the Viking scores 56/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/247240/volgarr-the-vikingThe 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 20, price as of Sep 24.
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