The First Berserker: Khazan
Fair · RPG · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $59.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 34.2h
- Value
- $1.75/hr
- Reviews
- 85% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 12 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 970 or Radeon RX 580 or Arc A580, 70 GB of storage. Windows only.
The First Berserker: Khazan is a hardcore action role-playing game. The player will become Khazan, the great general of the Pell Los Empire, who overcame death, and sets out to reveal the incidents that led to his downfall and seek vengeance on his enemies.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $35.99, set in June 2026. 7 discounts in the 2 years on record. They run about 30 percent off, roughly 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 12 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 11 percent on value. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 86 percent. Among the games that feel like it, LIZARDS MUST DIE ($3.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty ($19.99, scores 1).
Steam's global achievement data puts 32 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 6 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 79 percent of the 764 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (time-limited); the score docks it lightly for that.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
The drop-off
98% start to 32% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements
Players
1,253 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
I really wish people would stop comparing every difficult action/souls-like game to FromSoftware and enjoy what they decided to play. Hard games and connected levels existed way before Dark Souls/Elden Ring, and fanbases in other genres don't defend their favorite developers this aggressively. Genres like RTS games are more demanding on your reflexes and brainpower than learning a boss's attack pattern. Also...
This game has been an unexpectedly smooth and enjoyable sail. Performance was excellent, the only serious technical issue I have encountered is the continued unreliability of my own hands. The visuals and sound design are polished without constantly demanding attention. It simply looks and sounds exactly as good as it needs to while one is desperately trying not to get beaten into paste. Pleasing to the eye and ear...
From what I've heard of this game, I expected it to be great. After playing through it thoroughly, I could not agree with this assesment. At every step of my journey, I've been plagued by a myriad of issues pertaining to basically every system of the game. The Combat This is undoubtedly the best part of the game, allowing a lot of skill expression through weaving skills together. It seems to be closer to a...
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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The First Berserker: Khazan scores 57/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2680010/the-first-berserker-khazanThe 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 15, price as of Sep 23.
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