Slain: Back from Hell
Skip · Action · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 27, under the fair line, at $12.99.
- Length
- 6.1h
- Value
- $2.13/hr
- Reviews
- 72% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Slain: Back from Hell. A heavy metal inspired arcade combat with puzzle elements and gore galore. Stunning visuals and true old school gameplay accompanied by the most metal soundtrack you've ever heard.
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
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.29. That was February 2024. It has been discounted 107 times in the 11 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 4 weeks between sales.
It is pricier than 80 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 62 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Valfaris ($24.99, scores 43) and Blasphemous ($24.99, scores 64) both outscore it.
Of the 471 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 55 percent of the 592 reviews written there were positive, against 72 percent overall, and those are 35 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
81% 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
1 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 11:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
The art of the game is pretty good, that's it tho, the gameplay is pretty boring.
Do you know what is the most important part of a game, is to play the damn game, this game is a Kaizo trial and error, you don't play the game you just create muscle memory, this was developed by people who never played the arcade Castlevania, the arcade Ghouls'n Ghosts or even Battletoads, people who think old school equals cheap deaths. If anything this was inspired by the late bottom of the barrel games from the...
It's very nice. Retro graphics are well done. Lots of variety. Environments are well designed.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Slain: Back from Hell scores 27/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/369070/slain-back-from-hellReviews 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 23, price as of Oct 1.
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