Volgarr the Viking
Fair · Action · 2013
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 85% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$9.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$1.4985% offFair
- Cost per hourS
- $1.07/hr
- Reviews▼
- 81% of 2,454
- Critics
- 76 players 5 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 9% Action
Holding it back: Reviews
Watch this gameOne alert at $1.49 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 9.3h
- To 100%
- 20.3h 2.2x the story
- Finish
- 5% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 20
Price and sales
- Sales
- 62 on record
- Typical cut
- 80% off
- Steam low
- $0.99 August 2017
- Sale every
- 75d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 1 now
- Cheaper than
- 24% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 83% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
52% start to 5% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 62 discounts in the 13 years tracked, the median cut is 80 percent, about 11 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 9 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 76 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 83 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove ($39.99, scores 58) and Kero Blaster ($9.99, scores 74) both outscore it.
More about Volgarr the Viking
Steam's global achievement data puts about 5 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 9.3-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 304 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 70 percent of the 556 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.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $0.99 (90% off). Predictions like this were right 87% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
I was less angry playing Ghouls and Goblins than this psychotic display of malicious intentionality
1 more review
Really hard but fair game the controls are super tight and it looks great.Awesome little retro title
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 256MB, 205 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Volgarr the Viking scores 56/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/247240/volgarr-the-vikingReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 17, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.