Ryse: Son of Rome
Fair · Action · 2014
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 6.4h
- Value
- $1.56/hr
- Reviews
- 87% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, DirectX 11 graphics card with 1 GB video RAM, 26 GB of storage. Windows only.
“Ryse: Son of Rome” tells the story of Marius Titus, a young Roman soldier who witnesses the murder of his family at the hands of barbarian bandits, then travels with the Roman army to Britannia to seek revenge.
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $2.49. That was May 2021. Its cuts run 70 percent off as a rule. There have been 92 in the 12 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 3 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 73 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, DYNASTY WARRIORS 8: Xtreme Legends Complete Edition ($49.99, scores 68) beats it on value, while it beats Nioh: Complete Edition ($7.49, scores 57).
61 from critics against 87 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data puts 35 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. 11 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 59 percent of the 3,818 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
6.4 hours to finish it, 20 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.2 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 6.4 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
95% start to 35% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements
Players
83 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Ryse: Son of Rome tells the story of Marius Titus, a young Roman soldier who witnesses the murder of his family at the hands of barbarian bandits, then travels with the Roman army to Britannia to seek revenge. The game uses a ranking system as the player progresses and becomes better. The action is standard hack and slash. Crytek did a great job with the graphics. This game is also available on the Xbox One. Played...
Ryse: Son of Rome is a really enjoyable action game with some incredible visuals and a great Roman setting. The combat is simple but satisfying, especially when pulling off the brutal execution moves. The story is pretty straightforward, but it does a good job of keeping things moving, and the environments look fantastic even years later. The game is also quite short, which is probably its biggest downside. Still, I...
Short story, line story gameplay, beautiful Rome map. There is CO-OP 2P gameplay No any issues with performances wait for discount prices
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Ryse: Son of Rome scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/302510/ryse-son-of-romeThe 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 Sep 12, price as of Sep 24.
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