Crimsonland
Worth it · Multiplayer · 2014
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $13.99.
- Length
- 4.1h
- Value
- $3.41/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 205 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Thousands of aliens, giant spiders, mutant lizards, and more are on the attack - can you survive the onslaught? Crimsonland is a top-down shooter with a touch of RPG. Unlock over 30 weapons and over 50 perks from quirky to brutal. Complete the quest and show your skills in five survival modes.
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 $2.09. That was September 2023. Its cuts run 65 percent off as a rule. There have been 79 in the 12 years tracked, about 7 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 7 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 2 percent on value. It is pricier than 76 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Nuclear Throne ($11.99, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats Shadowgrounds ($6.99, scores 57).
The press gave it 68; the people who bought it give it 92 percent. A 24-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Of the 341 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 81 percent of the 204 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 4.1 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 21, 5.1 times as much.
At 4.1 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
69% start to 20% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
20 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
DO TRY THIS GAME. -Intense -Challenging -Difficult -End is nigh here nor far -Totally Shoot em ups -Caution: Blood....Guts -Long way to end Been working on this software since 2015
This game is a solid arcade experience. It's fun, it's old-school, it's a great time killer and has some legitimately fun achievements to try to hit. Worth the money, and worth your time.
vampire survivors' predecessor . lots of replayability fun, and quite difficult, to do no hit runs on higher difficulties and 100% 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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Crimsonland scores 77/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/262830/crimsonlandThe 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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