Valdis Story: Abyssal City
Fair · RPG · 2013
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 10.8h
- Value
- $1.39/hr
- Reviews
- 84% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Assume the role of Wyatt in this Action/Exploration Platformer as you explore the ruins of a holy city that was lost many years ago. Battle various types of demons, angels, and a new threat known only as the “Ferals”, using swordsmanship, martial arts, and sorcery.
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
January 2014 is where it bottomed out, at $3.74. 30 discounts in the 13 years on record. They run about 65 percent off, roughly 18 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 10 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 78 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 84 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Apotheon ($14.99, scores 65) beats it on value, while it beats Death's Gambit: Afterlife ($19.99, scores 52).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 12 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 10.8-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 357 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 57 percent of the 215 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 10.8 hours. Doing everything runs 22, 2.0 times as long.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 10.8 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
71% start to 12% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
What players say
A really cool brawler-metroidvania with a surprisingly interesting cast & story. This isn't super combo focused, but it still has a very high skillcap and it's designed around you getting better (for example, you get graded on bosses based on how much you get hit, how fast you hit them, if you needed to use healing items etc). Overall one of my favorite games and i'm really glad it got a sequel.
20/10 i love this game, it's like a replaying megaman x, Castlevania or Metroid 😉😉 i never finished the history of the other 3 characters but now it's the time
Neat story, super fun combat with various builds for each character. Fairly short but the characters and their builds make for a lot of replayability. Some platforming parts can be a bit ehh but they're usually not too bad.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Valdis Story: Abyssal City scores 59/100 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/252030/valdis-story-abyssal-cityReviews 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 Sep 20, price as of Oct 1.
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