KeeperRL
Skip · Roguelike · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 49, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Cost per hour
- $1.00/hr
- Reviews▼
- 83% of 1,822
- Genre rank
- Top 50% Roguelike
Holding it back: AI content, Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 20h
- To 100%
- 100h 5.0x the story
- Finish
- 4% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 33
Price and sales
- Sales
- 66 on record
- Typical cut
- 25% off
- Steam low
- $7.49 November 2015
- Sale every
- 36d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 18 now
- Cheaper than
- 9% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 61% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
35% start to <1% rarestA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 66 times in the 12 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 25 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 50 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 61 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Dwarf Fortress ($29.99, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats Infectonator: Survivors ($0.99, scores 17).
More about KeeperRL
8 of the 534 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 59 percent of the 126 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 20 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 100, 5.0 times as much.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 18 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
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
This game hits the sweet spot for me in terms of balancing base building & survival with the stuff I actually find fun. I had a good time building my dwarf base, but for me the fun really comes in the combat and exploring the procedurally generated world. It feels more like a traditional roguelike that added basic base building and controlling multiple units, rather than a base builder that added turn based combat...
2 more reviews
Games addicting and fun the battle part needs work but other then that i love it
I set up an archers/wizards training room near a pool with a Kraken. Now I have 50 000 kraken tentacle corpses and some pretty beefy rangies. Got killed by Death, didn't cheat death. Then I dug a hundreds of levels down until I read somewhere that Z levels go down to a million and that lvl 23 is the last meaningful level.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
KeeperRL is a retro dungeon simulator with roguelike and RPG elements. Take the role of an evil keeper and build a formidable dungeon. Recruit sinister minions, equip and train them to explore the world and fight the forces of good.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
KeeperRL scores 49/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The developer disclosed AI-generated content on Steam, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/329970/keeperrlReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base 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.