Serpent in the Staglands
Skip · RPG · 2015
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 20, under the fair line, at $13.99.
- Length
- 31.8h
- Value
- $0.44/hr
- Reviews
- 66% of 207 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
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
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About the game
A true role-playing adventure. Set in the icy Staglands, this party-based CRPG has you take the role of a trapped god on a perilous journey across a beautiful, deadly peninsula.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 3 GB of memory, 512 MB +, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 49 times in the 11 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 65 percent, about 13 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 70 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 82 percent. On the same math Tyranny ($29.99, scores 59) and Pillars of Eternity ($29.99, scores 78) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about Serpent in the Staglands
Critics scored it 75, but players land 9 points lower at 66 percent. The reviews were kinder than the room.
What players say
What ho, traveler. This game rules. It has a really fun combat system and a great ruleset, the story is amazingly fun and the way you interact with the world is fantastic, making a character build feels really thoughtful, a true cross between Fallout 1 and Baldur's Gate. The art and music, too, are truly incredible. Major downside? This game is, unfortunately, very buggy. I lost my progress multiple times. Maybe...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
If you like playing weird indie crpgs, this is right up your ally, sure it has its hick ups, but so do most indie crpgs. You gotta love exploring new lore, new ways the combat works, etc. I am a type of player that enjoyed Mars wars logs, this, Underrail, etc, more then Baldurs gate 3 (bg3 is a great game, but its everything that I have already seen, done better), games like this are weird, and full of lore and...
Firstly, everything that you've read about this games opacity and difficulty is true. I never played Darklands, it's 'spiritual predecessor', but just about every other 16bit classic I have - including Ultima VII again, only recently. I liked: The setting, character and the writing of the game. At times knowing or literate or funny, and at others merely enjoyably silly. It felt like the strongest part of the game. I...
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No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Serpent in the Staglands scores 20/100 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/335120/serpent-in-the-staglandsReviews 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 30, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.