Heretical
Skip · RPG · 2024 · Early Access
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 47, under the fair line, at $6.74.
- Reviews
- 85% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 55% off today.
Discounted in 6 of its last 7 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 30% ($10.49)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 55% ($6.74)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GTX 580 / AMD HD 7870, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
Die. Adapt. Strike back. Climb Sanctora in this brutal Rogue-lite where every death unlocks powers, heroes, and paths to vengeance.
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
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical RPG game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $6.74. That was June 2026. Its cuts run 30 percent off as a rule. There have been 16 in the 2 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $6.74 at 55 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
On value it sits in the top 21 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 72 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 85 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Ratatan ($24.99, scores 49) beats it on value, while it beats Voyagers of Nera ($29.99, scores 44).
Steam's global achievement data puts 90 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. 5 of the 447 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 57 percent of the 104 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
90% start to 90% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
9 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 12:51 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Heretical scores 47/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is estimated at 8 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The developer disclosed AI-generated content on Steam, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2877540/hereticalReviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 2.
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