Valhalla Hills
Skip · Strategy · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $6.99.
- Length
- 20.6h
- Value
- $0.34/hr
- Reviews
- 55% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Lead your people. Survive the wilderness. Fight for honor. Reclaim your eternal reward. A brand new strategy game from the developers of Cultures and The Settlers II.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.69. That was April 2022. Its cuts run 85 percent off as a rule. There have been 114 in the 11 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
It is less well reviewed than 97 percent of its genre. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Gnomoria ($14.99, scores 30) and Stonehearth ($19.99, scores 45) both outscore it.
The press liked it more than its buyers did, 69 against 55 percent.
2 of the 216 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to July 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 37 percent of the 195 reviews written there were positive, against 55 percent overall, and those are 29 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 20.6 hours. Doing everything runs 130, 6.3 times as long.
The drop-off
67% start to 1% 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
4 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
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Valhalla Hills scores 0/100 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/351910/valhalla-hillsThe 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 22, price as of Sep 24.
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