Deathtrap
Fair · RPG · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 90% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$19.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$1.9990% offFair
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.67/hr
- Reviews▼
- 84% of 2,284
- Critics
- 77 players 7 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 7% RPG
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews
Watch this gameOne alert at $1.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 7.5h
- To 100%
- 39.2h 5.2x the story
- Achievements
- 47
Price and sales
- Sales
- 74 on record
- Typical cut
- 90% off
- Steam low
- $1.99 June 2019
- Sale every
- 44d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 4 now
- Cheaper than
- 10% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 84% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
69% start to 2% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 74 times in the 12 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 90 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 7 percent. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 84 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Orcs Must Die! 2 ($3.74, scores 89) beats it on value, while it beats The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing II ($14.99, scores 23).
More about Deathtrap
1 of the 416 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to November 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 55 percent of the 236 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 7.5 hours. Doing everything runs 39, 5.2 times as long.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $1.99 (90% 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
What players say
Was a fun game, trying to play co op we got to level 10 tried to play another day and now two days in a row we haven't been able to join eachother just constantly saying connecting to resolve server. google says its because the game uses neocores servers but whats the point if they're down, either fix the servers or allow peer to peer hosting
2 more reviews, 2 not recommended
I only played this game because it was recommended to me by a hardcore gamer Yano The Gamer. It turned out to be a total disaster. Side mission from The Amazing Adventures of The Great Van Helsing was transformed to a separate tower defense game. And that's basically it. The game doesn't even try to pretend it has a storyline - you just clear all twelve missions one after another reading descriptions like "on this...
This older game has an interesting premise, but the general gameplay is pretty lacking. Movement and interactions are clunky and the levels are repetitive. It also appears the developer has abandoned the game. The multiplayer lobby failed several days ago, and posts to Steam tech support discussions and the Neocore Games website are ignored. It might be worth picking up on sale for solo play, but multiplayer is not...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Deathtrap is a Tower Defense game with strong action-RPG elements, a game of vicious tricks, killing machines, rotating blades and splattering blood.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, GeForce 8800, Radeon HD4000, Intel HD4000 (min. 512 MB VRAM), 20 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
Deathtrap scores 66/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/310510/deathtrapReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 18, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.