Odallus: The Dark Call
Fair · Action · 2015
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 50% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$9.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$4.9950% offWorth it
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.69/hr
- Reviews▼
- 88% of 1,365
- Critics
- 80 players 8 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 5% Action
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 5.9h
- To 100%
- 8.6h 1.5x the story
- Finish
- 9% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 29
Price and sales
- Sales
- 89 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $0.99 October 2023
- Sale every
- 34d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 0 now
- Cheaper than
- 24% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 94% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
50% start to 9% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 89 times in the 11 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 5 percent. It is pricier than 76 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, La-Mulana 2 ($24.99, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats Environmental Station Alpha ($7.99, scores 60).
More about Odallus: The Dark Call
Critics scored it 80. Players sit 8 points higher at 88 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 9 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 5.9-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 315 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 74 percent of the 153 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 18 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
Odallus: The Dark Call is a pretty great dark fantasy 2D action platforming Metroidvania. The graphics, controls, music, sound effects and cutscenes are exactly like what you'd see in an NES game from the early 90's, JoyMasher have nailed the execution perfectly. It's Ghouls 'n' Ghosts crossed with Castlevania and the art design and monsters are clearly inspired by Berserk. The gameplay is fun, addictive and...
1 more review, not recommended
Odallus is a side-scroller with RPG elements created by JoyMasher in a retro style. The protagonist goes through many stages inspired by old Castlevania games, collecting resources and a few upgrades while searching for secrets and fighting some difficult and unfair bosses. The simple and smooth gameplay is undoubtedly fun, but one can notice that the software engine is very, very crude. The result is a game with...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
The old gods have forgotten this land. No one could save our people when darkness started spreading and collecting human souls for its army. Odallus is a classic exploration/action game, inspired by Ghosts’n Goblins, Demon’s Crest and Castlevania.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 256MB VRAM Dedicated Graphics Card, 102 MB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
Odallus: The Dark Call scores 64/100 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/319480/odallus-the-dark-callReviews 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 Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.