Downwell
BANGER · Roguelike · 2015
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $2.99. Typically $0.74 in seasonal sales. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17.
- Cost per hour
- $0.47/hr
- ReviewsS
- 97% of 8,668
- Critics
- 81 players 16 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Roguelike
Watch this gameOne alert when it goes on sale.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 6.4h
- To 100%
- 14.8h 2.3x the story
- Achievements
- 20
Price and sales
- Sales
- 82 on record
- Typical cut
- 67% off
- Steam low
- $0.74 May 2018
- Sale every
- 42d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 7 now
- Cheaper than
- 91% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
75% start to 3% rarestA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 82 times in the 11 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 67 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 1 percent. It is cheaper than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. The nearest things to it, Kaze and the Wild Masks ($9.99, scores 74) and Tcheco in the Castle of Lucio ($0.99, scores 79), are both worse buys on this math.
More about Downwell
Critics scored it 81. Players sit 16 points higher at 97 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Of the 439 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 4 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 92 percent of the 2,189 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 28 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 6.4 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 15, 2.3 times as much.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 6.4 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
What an amazingly simple concept crafted to perfection! I just love loading this game up and having a small little run. The perfect bite-sized game.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Downwell is a curious game about a young person venturing down a well in search of untold treasures with only his Gunboots to protect him.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 205 MB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
Downwell scores 88/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/360740/downwellReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 20, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.