Choice of the Deathless

Choice of the Deathless

Worth it · RPG · 2014

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $4.99.

Length
2.4h 6.5h to 100%
Value
$2.08/hr
Reviews
92% of 322 positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $2.99 (40% off). Calls like this were right 89% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.

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

Raising the score
Reviews92% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 89% after the small-sample adjustment
Engagement56% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$2.08/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 29 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Battle demons and undead attorneys, and win souls to pay back your student loans! At the elite demonic-law firm of Varkath Nebuchadnezzar Stone, you'll depose a fallen god, find romance, and maybe even make partner, if you don't lose your own soul first.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

The value story

Across all 53 discounts in the 12 years tracked, the median cut is 34 percent, about 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 67 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. The nearest things to it, cyberpunkdreams (free, scores 48) and Left on Read (free, scores 55), are both worse buys on this math.

More about Choice of the Deathless

Steam's global achievement data puts 56 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15.

Finishing takes 2.4 hours; clearing it takes 7, which is 2.7 times the campaign.

The drop-off

97% start to 56% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

What players say

I had a lot of fun playing this on stream. I put all of the options in a poll and let chat make the important decisions. 10/10 would recommend for a slightly unhinged and fun stream!
Dahlia StarbrightRecommendedafter 2.0hMay 2024Read on Steam
1 more review
Choice of the Deathless is a "Choose Your Own Adventure"-style gamebook with an interesting setting, a well-designed narrative structure, meaningful decisions with many different paths to choose from, and a writing style that is generally pretty good but has some peculiarities that drive me up the wall. The story is set in a world where gods are real and have a presence on Earth, where powerful demons can enter our...
PsyringeRecommendedafter 28hFeb 2022Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Choice of the Deathless scores 79/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/318310/choice-of-the-deathless
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Reviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperChoice of Games
PublisherChoice of Games
GenreRPG
Released2014
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements32