Deathsmiles
Skip · Shooter · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$19.99Skip
On its price record
$13.51Fair
- Length
- 0.8h 23.6h to 100%
- Value
- $24.99/hr
- Reviews
- 96% of 629 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $13.51 or less.
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
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
Deathsmiles is CAVE's bullet-hell shoot-'em-up where you take the role of one of five Angels to defend the magical land of Gilverado from an invasion by Hell itself! Eradicate this devilish assault!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 5000, Geforce 9500GT, Radeon HD 3650 or better, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 77 times in the 11 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 60 percent, about 6 weeks apart. No sale on record has reached $1.94, the price it would take to be a BANGER.
On value it sits in the top 47 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 78 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, ZeroRanger ($11.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats Really Big Sky ($1.24, scores 43).
More about Deathsmiles
78 from critics against 96 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Of the 303 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 92 percent of the 178 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 31 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 0.8 hours. Doing everything runs 24, 30 times as long.
At 0.8 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
79% 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
Witches weave through fire Bullets bloom like haunted stars Hope flies through the storm
2 more reviews
All the "Deathsmiles is good for folks looking to get into STGs" folks were right. I like having multiple buttons to press and things to manage, so giving you a little guy to manage in the form of your option adds so much for me. When I dared to challenge the Suicide Bullets and started feeding my creature with them... it clicked. I understood. This was the first time I played an STG with a focus on scoring (as part...
The mixed focus this game demands can be very difficult to deal with if you're used to a forward focus, depending on how your mind is, and I don't like how much foreknowledge it demands - you're better off looking up the arbitrary item spawn points and devising an optimal stage & rank order. That said, once you're playing the game with knowledge, it's one of the best shmups you can play on PC. I think it's a little...
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Cite this score
Deathsmiles scores 45/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/314180/deathsmilesReviews 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.