Slitterhead
Skip · Action · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 36, under the fair line, at $49.99. Fair at $13.72, lower than any Steam price we have tracked since Nov 2024 (lowest $14.99, Mar 2026).
- Length
- 13.4h
- Value
- $3.73/hr
- Reviews
- 78% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in 6 of its last 7 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 50% ($24.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 70% ($14.99)
- Last discount ended
- 12 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVidia GeForce GTX 1060(6GB) /AMD Radeon RX 580, 30 GB of storage. Windows only.
"I must eliminate them...ALL..." The bodiless "Hyoki" hunts down the brain-devouring "Slitterheads", lurking in the alleys of a neon-lit city
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
The lowest price on record is $14.99, set in March 2026. 11 discounts in the 2 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 10 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 12 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 34 percent on value. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 75 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Happy's Humble Burger Farm ($19.99, scores 52) beats it on value, while it beats The Chant ($24.99, scores 32).
Of the 543 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 18 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2024 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,814 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 540 have a larger share. In its first 30 days on sale, 12 of 108 sampled reviews came from refunders. Inside the two-hour refund window, 67 percent of the 188 reviews written there were positive, against 78 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 13.4 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
95% start to 3% rarestNo 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
Players
2 players online when we last checked, on Sep 25, 23:51 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
It a feels a little bit like a PS2&PS3 japanese game in some aspects. However, I'm playing it on Nightmare and I'm loving it so far.
I genuinely love everything about Slitterhead. The core mechanics, the storytelling, the world, etc. It's a throwback to the late 90s or early 2000s where the first game in a series was a creative taste of what a series could grow into. Yet... the aftertaste is pure 2020s. Bitter, generic, and disappointing. So, ultimately, I don't know how I feel about this game, so I sure as heck can't recommend yes or no with any...
I was really drawn in by the Silent Hill creator's name and the trailer, which had a strong mix of The Thing and Kiseiju vibes (I'm a big fan of Kiseiju). But after playing it, I've got to say I'm pretty disappointed. The game clearly has potential, but it really shows that it was made on a low budget. Every single character, including the protagonist, doesn't actually talk-they just hum the entire time. All the...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Slitterhead scores 36/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2631250/slitterheadReviews 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 25, price as of Oct 1.
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