Ziggurat
Fair · Roguelike · 2014
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Reviews
- 85% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, DirectX 10 capable hardware, 799 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Dungeon-Crawling First Person Shooting at its finest! Fast-paced combat! Dozens of perks, spells and enemies! Level ups! Random Dungeons! Traps! Badass bosses! Carrots!
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
March 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $2.24. 74 discounts in the 12 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 2 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 31 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 71 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 68 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Gunfire Reborn ($19.99, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats Paranautical Activity: Deluxe Atonement Edition ($9.99, scores 21).
75 from critics against 85 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Of the 410 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 5 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 66 percent of the 529 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 19 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
86% start to 2% 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
Players
3 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
Cite this score
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Ziggurat scores 61/100 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/308420/zigguratThe 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 Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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