TinyKeep

TinyKeep

Skip · Roguelike · 2014

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 16, under the fair line, at $9.99.

Length
4.3h 15.9h to 100%
Value
$2.32/hr
Reviews
66% of 418 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $0.99 (90% off). Calls like this were right 89% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

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

Holding it back
Reviews66% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach75K+ 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
Value$2.32/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 26 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

About the game

TinyKeep, a top-down procedurally generated dungeon escape game with permadeath - you die and it's game over. Master the frantic physics-based combat, lure enemies into traps or make them fight each other for dominance. There are many ways to survive in TinyKeep!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, SM3 512MB VRAM, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

The value story

Across all 68 discounts in the 12 years tracked, the median cut is 90 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

It is less well reviewed than 90 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Dungeon Souls ($12.99, scores 37) beats it on value, while it beats NECROPOLIS: BRUTAL EDITION ($7.49, scores 14).

More about TinyKeep

Inside the two-hour refund window, 62 percent of the 127 reviews written there were positive, against 66 percent overall, and those are 50 percent of everything written about it.

HowLongToBeat players log 4.3 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 16, 3.7 times as much.

The drop-off

68% start to <1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

What players say

Overhead dungeon crawler roguelike with some semblance of a story where you are trying to escape with your cellmate of 6 years and you can choose to help them or... not. The combat feels a bit clunky at first but once you start upgrading and the game ups the difficulty on you throwing out mobs plus bosses it can get pretty hectic and a lot of fun as you learn to use the environmental hazards and traps to your favour...
peremptorRecommendedafter 14h54 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
TinyKeep, developed by Phigames and published by Digital Tribe, is an action roguelike that strips the genre down to a lean, survival-focused experience built around improvisation and environmental awareness. Set within a procedurally generated dungeon that functions more like a prison than a traditional fantasy labyrinth, the game challenges players to escape rather than conquer. You begin each run with minimal...
xxadonisxxRecommendedafter 14hMar 2026Read on Steam
Tiny keep is a treasure to behold and a somewhat interesting game to play. However, This game is lacking a variety of things to a rogue-like procedural death/dungeon crawler. Here is a small list: An inventory, Some sort of skill tree and leveling up system, new clothing/armor, and a variety of weapons. it does not provide neither a small nor large variety of weapons, only three. Here is a list of a few obnoxious...
Jerry SeinfeldNot recommendedafter 3.4h163 found this helpfulRead on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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TinyKeep scores 16/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/278620/tinykeep
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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 Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperPhigames
PublisherDigital Tribe
GenreRoguelike
Released2014
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements36