The First Berserker: Khazan

The First Berserker: Khazan

Fair · RPG · 2025

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 6 of 6 sales

Fair at $59.99. Buy it if you want it.

Cost per hour▼
$1.75/hr
Reviews▼
85% of 33,164
Genre rank
Top 13% RPG

Holding it back: DRM, Cost per hour

Why
It needs 55% off ($26.89) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $26.89 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
34.2h
To 100%
57.6h 1.7x the story
Finish
32% reach the ending
Achievements
57

Price and sales

Sales
8 on record
Typical cut
30% off
Steam low
$35.99 June 2026
Sale every
61d last October 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $30.95 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
319 now
Recent reviews
91% 30 days
Cheaper than
1% of its genre
Better reviewed
88% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

98% start to 32% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

8 discounts in the 2 years on record, a median of 30 percent off across all of them, roughly 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Against its own genre its score lands in the top 13 percent. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Blade of Darkness ($14.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats There Is No Light: Enhanced Edition ($19.99, scores 28).

More about The First Berserker: Khazan

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 18. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 5 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2025 to October 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.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 6 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 29 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
Engagement32% finish
How far players get (achievements). It can only add points
Holding it back
Cost per hour$1.75/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
MonetizationTime-limited
Paid extras, but no loot boxes or currency. A light touch
DRMDenuvo
Denuvo copy protection, a small friction discount
For context
Refunds5 of 800 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
In-app purchasesTime-limitedPCGamingWiki

What players say

This game is great. easily in the top 10 best action games of all time. HIGH recommend!
Hi-Tech HermitRecommendedafter 103h4 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Honestly, The First Berserker: Khazan was much better than I expected. When I first saw videos of it, I thought it was going to be some cheap copy. Even after watching more gameplay, I wasn't really convinced that it was going to be good. But I was wrong. It's definitely not the best game out there, but it's a genuinely good and enjoyable game. The combat is fun and satisfying, and once I got into it, I found myself...
EternalustRecommendedafter 56h2 found this helpfulRead on Steam
Ever wanted to play a souls like where bosses have 10x too much health? This is the game for you!
Buck Wilde 2.0Not recommendedafter 44hOct 2026Read on Steam

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

About the game

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.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

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.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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The First Berserker: Khazan scores 57/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2680010/the-first-berserker-khazan
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Reviews 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 Nov 8, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Details

DeveloperNeople
PublisherNEXON
GenreRPG
Released2025
Players1.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements57