The Rangers In The South
Skip · Roguelike · 2025
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 42, under the fair line, at $3.99.
- Length
- 3.3h
- Value
- $1.21/hr
- Reviews
- 81% of 819 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $2.19 (45% off). Calls like this were right 89% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 7 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 9 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
Purge the lands in this 2.5D HD Pixelart RogueLike ARPG! Create hundreds of characters with unique strategies and abilities, face hordes of enemies, explore different biomes, procedurally generated dungeons, and obtain unique items!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia Geforce 1050, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
8 discounts in the 2 years on record, a median of 27 percent off across all of them, roughly 13 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.
It is cheaper than 92 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Heroes of Hammerwatch II ($7.99, scores 58) beats it on value, while it beats Hero Siege ($7.99, scores 19).
More about The Rangers In The South
This site sampled 445 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 6 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written January 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 74 percent of the 236 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 30 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
90% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
I really wanted to love this game, but it feels...rough. It also feels...empty? The potential is there, you can almost see the dev's vision, but it fails before you can see it. It feels boring because I'm not even sure what I'm supposed to be doing and you can't alter the appearance of whomever you get as a character. I can't say the devs even know where they were going with it, as it seems like they haven't touched...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Fun for about 30 minutes in that junkfood/guilty pleasure kinda way, but wears thin quickly after. The game has an entire "generations" system, but I didn't notice after choosing the Ranger and stacking Attack Speed. Won the game first try, and honestly, there isn't enough here to even warrant a 2nd playthrough - let alone a 100th for the achievement. Like a decent fillet mignon, it's good, but too little to carry...
I'd give this game a neutral rating if I could. Will give it a positive review, since a negative feels a bit unfair. After 10 hours and 4 completed runs, all I can say is that this game could be so, so much more than it currently is, but it seems unlikely that it'll be developed any further. Visually, it's great. Core gameplay loop is decent and fun, but is lacking depth. In fact, every system in this game is...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Rangers In The South scores 42/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. 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/3074110/the-rangers-in-the-southReviews 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 1, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.