Death's Gambit: Afterlife
Fair · RPG · 2018
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 14.1h
- Value
- $0.71/hr
- Reviews
- 81% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT/ AMD Radeon HD 6450, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
Death's Gambit: Afterlife is a challenging 2D action platformer with deep RPG elements. As an agent of Death bound to his service, unravel the mystery of Siradon and discover the true price of immortality.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $3.99, set in March 2020. Its cuts run 45 percent off as a rule. There have been 61 in the 8 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $9.99 at 50 percent off still sits 150 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
At full price it scores 52. The current cut is what makes it a 60.
On value it sits in the top 8 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 78 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Salt and Sanctuary ($17.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats The Last Faith ($27.99, scores 58).
Steam's global achievement data says about 1 percent of players ever finish it. On a 14.1-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. 9 of the 752 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 53 percent of the 491 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
14.1 hours to finish it, 40 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.9 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 14.1 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
64% start to 1% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 14.1-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
18 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
great game. i already loved the OG version. but the afterlife remake made it way better. and the story is damn great too. the only reason i will not do this game in 100%, is because i'm simple not good enough of a player. also i bought the OST's and i listen to them often. i highly recommend this one
This was a very fun game, with a twist of metroidvania and soulslike that is a very cool concept. My main problem lies with the story. For the most part you have this medieval setting with magic and knights and all that great jazz. But out of nowhere it throws you into this technologically advanced Terminator zone that feels extremely disconnected to the rest of the game. As the story progresses, it keeps the same...
Death's Gambit is a tough sell to recommend. I first played this in 2019, and I hated it. This isn't a bad game per-say, but it can be very slow. Like Hollow Knight/Metroid/Castlevania... literally any game that deals with backtracking, you're not going to know what to do until you progress. Dying isn't that bad, and is expected - instead of losing currency as other reviewers have noted, you just temporarily lose...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Death's Gambit: Afterlife scores 60/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/356650/death-s-gambit-afterlifeThe 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 23, price as of Sep 24.
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