Chasm
Skip · Roguelike · 2018
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $19.99.
- Length
- 8.8h
- Value
- $2.27/hr
- Reviews
- 74% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Direct3D 11 support (feature level 10_0), 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Explore the depths below a remote mountain town in this procedurally-generated Adventure Platformer. Taking inspiration from hack 'n slash dungeon crawlers and Metroidvania-style platformers, Chasm will immerse you in a fantasy world full of exciting treasure, deadly enemies, and abundant secrets.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $2.99. That was March 2026. 81 discounts in the 8 years on record. They run about 60 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was this month, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
It is pricier than 88 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 68 percent. Rogue Legacy ($14.99, scores 79) outscores it, and so does Death's Gambit: Afterlife ($9.99, scores 60). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
This site sampled 466 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 38 percent of the 138 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 8.8 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
60% start to 3% finishMost players never reach the end. On an 8.8-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
8 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
this is one of the best metroidvanias i ever played! i totally recommend this game!
It's an enjoyable platformer, but feels a little basic. You obtain very little movement options that actually aid in battle, except for maybe two boss fights that force you to use your new abilities to dodge their attacks. Battling standard enemies becomes quite simple once you get the attack-attack-dodge pattern down. The fact that dodging is only available as a backwards dash severely limits combat dynamics and...
This game is like those white labeled products in Repo Man, if there was a container that was just labeled "Metroidvania." Every aspect of it feels bland at best, packed with samey rooms full of spongy enemies that just give you plenty of time to soak in how underwhelming the experience is. The procedural generation, its main conceit, is pretty pointless when it isn't fun enough to want to even finish the game the...
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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Chasm scores 35/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/312200/chasmThe 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 21, price as of Sep 24.
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