Songbringer

Songbringer

Skip · Roguelike · 2017

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 43, under the fair line, at $19.99.

Length
6.1h 13h to 100%
Value
$3.28/hr
Reviews
79% of 261 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 1 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 655 days ago.

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

Holding it back
Reviews79% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 77% after the small-sample adjustment
Reach35K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$3.28/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 19 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Imagine if the original Zelda game was set in a science-fiction galaxy. Explore this open-world, action RPG with roguelike and metroidvania elements. Mighty bosses lurk deep within procedurally-generated dungeons. Wield, vanquish, unearth, collect, craft, progress, trip, adventure.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, OpenGL 2.0+ Compatible Card, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

The value story

Across all 34 discounts in the 9 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 94 weeks ago.

It is pricier than 88 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 60 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Children of Morta ($21.99, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Dungeons of Edera ($14.99, scores 19).

More about Songbringer

68 from critics against 79 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.

HowLongToBeat players log 6.1 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 13, 2.1 times as much.

Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 6.1 hours it is short enough to finish on one.

The drop-off

64% start to 5% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

A 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

What players say

At first I played it a bit and just put it down for a while. I didn't get it, I didn't have a clue what was happening. Then I returned years later and my goodness this is pretty dang cool. I was playing just to play something I had in my library and now I'm playing to see whats next, what do I have to fight, where is the story going, what is the next block on the map going to be!? Give it a shot.
AkiraRecommendedafter 6.5hJun 2023Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Songbringer scores 43/100 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/367080/songbringer
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Reviews 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 Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+11
Critics68
Players79
Metacritic critics · 261 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperWizard Fu
PublisherWizard Fu
GenreRoguelike
Released2017
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements37