Odallus: The Dark Call
Fair · Action · 2015
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Reviews
- 88% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 256MB VRAM Dedicated Graphics Card, 102 MB of storage. Windows only.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Action game (about 6 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.99. That was October 2023. It has been discounted 87 times in the 11 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 10 percent on value. It is pricier than 73 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Messenger ($19.99, scores 77) beats it on value, while it beats Axiom Verge ($19.99, scores 52).
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. This site sampled 312 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 74 percent of the 152 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
50% start to 9% finishMost players never reach the end. Steam global achievements
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Odallus: The Dark Call scores 54/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). Length is estimated at 6 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/319480/odallus-the-dark-callThe 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 Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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