Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Mirror of Fate HD
Skip · Action · 2014
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $14.99.
- Reviews
- 84% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Direct X9 compatible video card with 512Mb RAM, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
This sequel to Castlevania: Lords of Shadow reveals the story of the Belmonts as they battle destiny across generations to discover their true fate. Trevor Belmont, knight of the Brotherhood of Light, embarks on an epic quest to avenge his mother who was killed by his father Gabriel.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Action game (about 6 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
October 2020 is where it bottomed out, at $2.24. It has been discounted 69 times in the 13 years tracked here, typically at 80 percent off, with about 8 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 8 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 23 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 87 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Ultimate Edition ($29.99, scores 52) beats it on value, while it beats Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2 (2001) ($6.99, scores 17).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 5 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. Of the 466 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 58 percent of the 294 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
50% start to 5% finishMost players never reach the end. Steam global achievements
Players
8 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Mirror of Fate HD scores 43/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). Length is estimated at 6 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/282530/castlevania-lords-of-shadow-mirror-of-fate-hdThe 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 Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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