Rivals of Aether
Fair · Short indie · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 50% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$29.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$14.9950% offFair
- Cost per hour▼
- $16.66/hr
- ReviewsS
- 96% of 38,428
- Genre rank
- Top 12% Short indie
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $14.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 1.8h
- To 100%
- 85.5h 47.5x the story
- Finish
- 17% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 36
Price and sales
- Sales
- 71 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $3.74 December 2018
- Sale every
- 53d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 198 now
- Recent reviews
- 96% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 1% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
49% start to 17% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 71 times in the 11 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 8 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $5.73. The record reaches that level 4 times.
Its score sits in the top 12 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Nidhogg ($9.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats Fraymakers ($19.99, scores 44).
More about Rivals of Aether
Steam's global achievement data puts about 17 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 1.8-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 25 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2022 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 78 percent of the 1,499 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 1.8 hours. Doing everything runs 86, 48 times as long.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 1.8 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 6 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
its peak, someone made a one to one amazing recreation of yi from nine sols and i love it so much 10/10 game also absa's cool too.
2 more reviews
Unironically the greatest platform fighter ever made which makes which makes it unfortunate that most people will never play it
the only game where a tetris block and jovial merryment from horse race tests can fight each other while on green hill zone meanwhile bubble from the amazing digital circus watches from above 10/10
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
RIVALS OF AETHER is an indie fighting game where warring civilizations summon the power of Fire, Water, Air, and Earth. Play with up to four players either locally or online.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, DirectX Compatible graphics card with at least 32MB of video memory, 297 MB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Rivals of Aether scores 54/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/383980/rivals-of-aetherReviews 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 Nov 6, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.