99 Levels To Hell

99 Levels To Hell

Skip · Roguelike · 2014

The verdict

SKIP IT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 0 of 8 sales

It scores 9, under the fair line, at $4.99.

Cost per hour
$0.57/hr
Reviews▼
60% of 606
Critics
66 players 6 lower
Genre rank
Top 94% Roguelike

Holding it back: Reviews, Reach

Why
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Time and effort

Typical playtime
8.8h
To 100%
22.3h 2.5x the story
Finish
5% reach the ending
Achievements
22

Price and sales

Sales
48 on record
Typical cut
75% off
Steam low
$0.49 October 2015
Sale every
32d last December 2023
All-time low $0.49 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
0 now
Cheaper than
78% of its genre
Better reviewed
5% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

55% start to 4% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

A game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

It has been discounted 48 times in the 13 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 148 weeks ago.

It is cheaper than 78 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Rogue Legacy ($14.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats Endorlight ($0.99, scores 6).

More about 99 Levels To Hell

Inside the two-hour refund window, 48 percent of the 166 reviews written there were positive, against 60 percent overall, and those are 49 percent of everything written about it.

HowLongToBeat players log 8.8 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 22, 2.5 times as much.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 1039 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

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

Raising the score
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones. Scored as 61% after the small-sample adjustment
Reach350K+ 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
Refunds0 of 43 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

What players say

Gets repetitive fast. The early charm wears off quickly, leaving a run that feels more like a slog than a roguelike.
SteveHybridNot recommendedafter 43hNov 2025Read on Steam

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

About the game

99 Levels to Hell is a platform shooter with lots of guns, upgrades, magic, traps and monsters to kill. 99 Levels to Hell is a rogue-like, which means surviving is key and every time you play you get a new set of levels to play. When you complete 10 levels, the 10th being a boss-fight you unlock a door to the next dungeon.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics Family, 1.1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
99 Levels To Hell scores 9/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/264280/99-levels-to-hell
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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 Oct 17, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players-6
Critics66
Players60
Metacritic critics · 606 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperZaxis Games
PublisherZaxis Games
GenreRoguelike
Released2014
Players350Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements22