Spirits of Xanadu
Fair · Shooter · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 2.6h 4.8h to 100%
- Value
- $1.92/hr
- Reviews
- 79% of 478 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
At the farthest edge of the explored universe, the research ship Xanadu slumbers in orbit around a mysterious planet. Her systems remain active but there has been no message from her crew for months. Now a lone operative has been sent to wake the Xanadu and bring her home to Earth.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Dedicated graphics card with 512MB of VRAM and shader model 3.0, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
125 discounts in the 12 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 38 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 77 percent of its genre. Skin Deep ($11.99, scores 81) outscores it, and so does Prey ($29.99, scores 69). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
The drop-off
35% start to 5% 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
Very moody. I very much liked exploring the ship. the notes were well written, The idea behind hiding an ending behind finding almost every single note, i could do without, some were hidden a bit too well. I had fun, it's not really a challenging game, more of a walking simulator where you sometimes shoot enemies, the game might as well not have them, to be honest. Atmosphere carries it, but it does it well enough...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Spirits of Xanadu is a loveletter to im-sims of old, specifically System Shock 2. It's DNA is all over SoX, from the audiologs to the protocol droids down to the dang grav-lifts. This is not a bad game, and if you can catch it on sale (it goes for as little as 0.99 USD!) it's worth a quick run through. I managed to beat the game first time in 2 hours. Realizing you have infinite ammo for every weapon (which never...
It is a fun game. I didn't mind the "plain" graphics. It was actually refreshing for everything to seem new and clean. (Do you ever wonder why developers think you always want to slog around through sewage and decay for a whole game?) The game was pretty fun and I got interested in solving it. There's three possible endings. I got two of them... This isn't enough detail to be close to a spoiler, but part of the game...
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Cite this score
Spirits of Xanadu scores 53/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/312230/spirits-of-xanaduReviews 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 Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.