Achilles: Survivor
Fair · Roguelike · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $8.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 17.7h
- Value
- $0.51/hr
- Reviews
- 82% positive
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely between Oct 8 and Oct 21, at about $5.39 (40% off). Calls like this were right 78% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks. Its own discounts have started about 70 days apart.
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today. Valve's discount rules keep it out of the Autumn Sale: its US price went up on Sep 8, and no discount is allowed for 30 days after that. The next one it can join is the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4.
Discounted in each of its last 4 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- Until Oct 8
- Last discount ended
- 25 days ago
Watch it for a saleSources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 4GB / AMD Radeon RX 560 4GB, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
Thousands of enemies. One survivor. Fight like a demigod, build deadly defenses, and grow stronger after every run in this fast-paced bullet heaven set in mythic Greece.
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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $3.99, set in March 2025. It has been discounted 16 times in the 2 years tracked here, typically at 30 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Value puts it in the top 48 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 67 percent of its genre. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Jotunnslayer: Hordes of Hel ($8.99, scores 57) and Glyphica: Typing Survival ($9.99, scores 69) both outscore it.
Of the 568 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 13 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 63 percent of the 179 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 17.7 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 44, 2.5 times as much.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
The drop-off
92% start to 13% finishA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
72 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 16:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
The graphics and optimization are good. But the game puts you on rails: there are very few different spells, and their modifications are extremely timid. You don't get the satisfaction of creativity, of making weird builds with absurd multipliers. Here, everything is bland and predictable: 10% here, 15% there... The upgrades you make have almost no impact. Another example of the lack of freedom: you can't choose to...
Gameplay is slow and boring, roguelike mechanics are shallow. Skill design is lacking, not much customization too. Structure building isnt bad idea, but implementation is poor. Most of structures lose viability pretty fast.
grindy, but satisfactory Survivor type. some of the enemy mobs can be annoying when they obscure suicide bombers running at you... gotta stay on your toes. the upgrades are meaningful, and function as listed. the structures that you can build have meaning, and add depth and survivability... the shop structure even grants you coins to necessary for permanent stat upgrades (skill tree outside of the map).
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Achilles: Survivor scores 53/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2922410/achilles-survivorReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 2.
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