Insanity's Blade
Skip · Action · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 35, under the fair line, at $5.99.
- Length
- 3h
- Value
- $2.00/hr
- Reviews
- 73% of 300 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
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
About the game
Take a father’s journey to hell in order to save the souls of his wife and child. Insanity's Blade: The Chronicles of Thurstan is the first in a series of games based around the journey of a sword possessed by a father's powerful grief and hatred. This is the tale of the sword's creation.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 512mb DirectX-compliant, INTEL GPUs not supported, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
72 discounts in the 12 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 36 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Nidhogg 2 ($7.49, scores 52) beats it on value, while it beats Slain: Back from Hell ($1.29, scores 34).
More about Insanity's Blade
Steam's global achievement data puts about 11 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 3-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Inside the two-hour refund window, 56 percent of the 106 reviews written there were positive, against 73 percent overall, and those are 42 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
80% start to 11% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
What players say
I'll have to come by to give this one a better review in the future. It's a good game, at least on a budget. Definitely geared more toward arcade cabinet veterans.
1 more review, not recommended
Review after at least 30 minutes: (64 minutes at time of writing.) Did I enjoy it? - I did for a bit, now I don't. Will I come back to it? - No, I don't think so. Was it worth my time? - For an hour..? Kinda, not really. Would I recommend it? - No, it's just too clunky. First Impressions: So I liked the first level or so. It was mindless fun. As I progressed however, many enemies took too much attention to take...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Insanity's Blade scores 35/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/334190/insanity-s-bladeReviews 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.