Call of Sentinels

Call of Sentinels

Skip · Roguelike · 2024

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 39, under the fair line, at $7.99.

Length
1.9h
Value
$4.21/hr
Reviews
78% of 205 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 10 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

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

Holding it back
Reviews78% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 76% after the small-sample adjustment
Reach10K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$4.21/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 178 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

An innovative blend of Bullet Hell and Survival elements, high dynamics, variable builds, arena competition with players from around the world. Beautiful hand-drawn graphics. Twitch integration for streamers, allowing viewers to influence gameplay.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 2GB VRAM, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

Across all 21 discounts in the 3 years tracked, the median cut is 35 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 10 days ago.

It is cheaper than 72 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 63 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Caveblazers ($9.99, scores 63) beats it on value, while it beats West of Dead ($3.99, scores 29).

The drop-off

81% start to 3% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

What players say

Call of Sentinels, developed and published by A17 Games, is a high-energy roguelite that blends arena survival with bullet hell intensity, creating an experience that thrives on momentum, reflexes, and build experimentation. It enters a genre that has grown increasingly crowded, yet manages to carve out its own space by leaning into fast decision-making and a strong emphasis on how players shape each run. From the...
xxadonisxxRecommendedafter 16hApr 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Another action roguelike completed, and well worth my time invested. It took me a while to unlock 100 % spear boons, but this is one of those games you just can't put down once you get close to the very last few achievements.
AtarisaurusRecommendedafter 50hAug 2025Read on Steam
Someone called this "fantastic". Like, I hope you're getting paid for that review, man. This is a hades cheap clone that went from 0.4 to 1.0 with no inbetweens. You can check the news section. I made the mistake of paying for it when it launched in EA. They never delivered something worth playing. Animationsa are awful. Objectives are few and repetitive. Tooltips and even some text feels machine translated. Few...
Sundowning.Not recommendedafter 5.8h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Call of Sentinels scores 39/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 20, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2558200/call-of-sentinels
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Reviews 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 30, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperA17 Games
PublisherA17 Games
GenreRoguelike
Released2024
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements53