Crawl

Crawl

Worth it · Roguelike · 2017

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 80% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$14.99Worth it

Typical seasonal cut

$2.9980% off

Cost per hour
$12.49/hr
ReviewsS
95% of 7,327
Genre rank
Top 4% Roguelike

Holding it back: Reach

Why
No price makes it a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.99 or less.

Time and effort

Typical playtime
1.2h
To 100%
14.2h 11.8x the story
Achievements
45

Price and sales

Sales
72 on record
Typical cut
67% off
Steam low
$2.99 March 2021
Sale every
45d last October 2026
Lowest now $2.99 at GOGall-time low $2.78 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
7 now
Cheaper than
27% of its genre
Better reviewed
95% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

39% start to <1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

A 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

The value story

The value story

72 discounts in the 12 years on record, a median of 67 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Its score sits in the top 4 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 73 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Nuclear Throne ($11.99, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats Legend of Dungeon ($9.99, scores 34).

More about Crawl

8 of the 458 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to November 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 83 percent of the 1,111 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 20 percent of everything written about it.

HowLongToBeat players log 1.2 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 14, 12 times as much.

At 1.2 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $2.99 (80% off). Predictions like this were right 87% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.

Last discount ended 31 days ago.

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
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones. Scored as 94% after the small-sample adjustment
Holding it back
Reach350K+ 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
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds8 of 458 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

What players say

game is very good. multiplayer is odd on pc. need remote play to work with friends. i recommend playing on the couch with friends
A Steam playerRecommendedafter 2.5h3 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
hell yeah slay the demons and die and become a demon and slay the hero and become the hero and
A Steam playerRecommendedafter 4.7hSep 2026Read on Steam
difficult, not fun enough to get good at, maybe it's fun with other people. i don't know, i have no friends
A Steam playerNot recommendedafter 1.4hSep 2026Read on Steam

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

About the game

Crawl is the local multiplayer dungeon crawler where your friends control the monsters! Battle through dungeons and power up your hero - if a friend kills you they take your place and it’s their turn to crawl. It's a race to gain enough XP and loot to take on the hulking final boss!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 399 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Crawl scores 82/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/293780/crawl
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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 Oct 17, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Details

DeveloperPowerhoof
PublisherPowerhoof
GenreRoguelike
Released2017
Players350Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements45