SKYHILL

SKYHILL

Skip · Roguelike · 2015

The verdict

SKIP IT.

The value isn't there at $9.99.

Length
3.2h
Value
$3.12/hr
Reviews
78% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.

Next sale
Autumn Sale, Oct 1 to 8
Autumn Sale cooldown
None on record
Typical seasonal cut
90% ($0.99)
Last discount ended
11 days ago

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

Watch this gameOne email when it is worth buying.
Length
3.2h
typical playtime (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
20h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$3.12
price ÷ typical playtime
Price
$9.99
as of Sep 25
Reviews
78%
5,721 reviews, as of Aug 2
Metacritic
63
critic score
Players
350K
owners (estimate)
Released
2015

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, ATI Radeon HD 3400 Series, GeForce 205, 1.3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

World War III is over, the world's infested with mutants and your supplies are running out. Fight your way down this damned hotel, from your penthouse on top to the first floor. Craft weapons, search for food and reach the exit. Otherwise you'll be torn apart, starve to death or maybe both...
Description from the Steam store page.

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
Reviews78% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach350K+ players
How many own it and play it, the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$3.12/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
Length3.2 hours
Typical playtime on HowLongToBeat. Endless games score on players, so hours stay out of it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 399 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked

The value story

The lowest price on record is $0.99, set in April 2022. It has been discounted 111 times in the 11 years tracked here, typically at 90 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

On value it sits in the top 50 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Dead Age ($14.99, scores 57) beats it on value, while it beats The Flame in the Flood ($14.99, scores 44).

The press gave it 63; the people who bought it give it 78 percent. A 15-point gap in the buyer's favour.

None of the 399 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 61 percent of the 765 reviews written there were positive, against 78 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.

HowLongToBeat players log 3.2 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 20, 6.3 times as much.

Players

About 66 players at once, as of Sep 24.

Player counts via SteamSpy.

No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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SKYHILL scores 48/100 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/382140/skyhill
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Reviews 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 Aug 2, price as of Sep 25.

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Critics vs players+15
Critics
63
Players
78
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 5,721 Steam player reviews

Tags

Details

DeveloperMandragora
PublisherDaedalic Entertainment
GenreRoguelike
Released2015
AI contentNone disclosed on Steam