Niffelheim
Skip · RPG · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 31, under the fair line, at $3.99.
- Length
- 12.3h 31.1h to 100%
- Value
- $0.32/hr
- Reviews
- 71% of 2,336 positive
Full price
Today
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Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- 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
Your avatar is a brave warrior who has fallen in battle. But instead of well-deserved peace in Asgard, his soul is trapped in the harsh world of Niffelheim. Survive in this hostile world, ransack the neighbor lands, explore dangerous dungeons and find your way to Valhalla
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel Iris 4800, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 116 times in the 10 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 80 percent, about 4 weeks apart. Today's $3.99 at 80 percent off still sits 101 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 49 percent on value. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 65 percent. On the same math Tinkerlands ($9.09, scores 67) and Feel The Snow ($12.99, scores 77) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about Niffelheim
9 of the 531 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,866 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 484 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 51 percent of the 287 reviews written there were positive, against 71 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 12.3 hours. Doing everything runs 31, 2.5 times as long.
The drop-off
49% start to 3% 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
What players say
I don't know who this game was for. It is a side-scrolling 2d Survivor, PvE mixed with PvP. but the map is mirrored 4 times like an RTS game. It's like an odd bland that tries to appeal to an extreme niche. The thing is, the game works well as a Coop PvE game, but it is balanced for Team-PvP. I know. It is odd. It could easily be fixed by removing the team vs team, and have things adjusted for coop. For example, you...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Amazing set up and concept, BUT my main complaint is the difficulty. My first time I died too many times and my health kept getting reduced, but I learned a lot about how the game works and what to focus on... or so I thought. In my second game, I thought I was doing well, but there are too many problems that pop up requiring multi-step solutions that I cannot solve e.g., I need to give a Humble Offering for the...
Thought I'd be a grim Viking turned out I'm breakdancing with ghosts on a glacier to heavy metal
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Cite this score
Niffelheim scores 31/100 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/351100/niffelheimReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.