Jotun: Valhalla Edition
Skip · Action · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $14.99.
- Length
- 5.2h
- Value
- $2.88/hr
- Reviews
- 77% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, DirectX 10-compatible graphics card with at least 256MB of video memory, 8 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Jotun is a hand-drawn action-exploration game set in Norse mythology. In Jotun, you play Thora, a Viking warrior who died an inglorious death and must prove herself to the Gods to enter Valhalla. Impress the Gods!
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.49. That was March 2025. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 89 in the 11 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 28 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 70 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Nine Sols ($29.99, scores 81) beats it on value, while it beats Praey for the Gods ($29.99, scores 36).
Of the 511 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 50 percent of the 456 reviews written there were positive, against 77 percent overall, and those are 21 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
35% start to 2% 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
Players
3 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
very simplistic game in both gameplay and art direction, yes still fun. Difficult to 100%, a fair challenge if you want it. The humble beginnings of an amazing game studio which ended up being one of my favourite studios ever.
Played this some years ago. Even though the game looks nice, the gameplay is all but. The mechanics are tedious at times, the pace is sluggish and makes it hard to enjoy this game. I really wanted to like this game, but it's downsides just drag it down too much to make it enjoyable.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Jotun: Valhalla Edition scores 39/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/323580/jotun-valhalla-editionThe 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 Sep 12, price as of Sep 24.
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