NECROPOLIS: BRUTAL EDITION
Skip · Roguelike · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $29.99.
- Length
- 6.6h
- Value
- $4.54/hr
- Reviews
- 65% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 630 GT or AMD Radeon HD 6670, 5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
NECROPOLIS: BRUTAL EDITION is a major update featuring a new playable adventurer (The Brute), a completely new outdoor environment (The Black Forest), and lots of new enemies, weapons, armor, traps, potions, scrolls, and other big improvements to the game.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
October 2017 is where it bottomed out, at $4.49. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 84 in the 11 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 6 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Dungeon Souls ($12.99, scores 37) beats it on value, while it beats Blightbound ($19.99, scores 13).
Of the 525 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 8 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 355 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 33 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 30 percent of the 672 reviews written there were positive, against 65 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 6.6 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 27, 4.0 times as much.
At 6.6 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
87% 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 at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
GREAT GAME!! Only negative reviews are focused on the devs "abounding" the game. Not a valid argument. I'd much rather this beautiful game be left alone than barded with updates and micro transactions, which could have been SO easy with what kind of game this. 10/10 would recommend. Fun with friends, Procedurally generated maps so it doesn't get old fast. This game does not deserve a "mixed" review status, which is...
It's quite an interesting game. Beautiful, stylish graphics, and the gameplay is similar to Dark Souls. Unfortunately, the game has long been abandoned by the developers. You can't get platinum without an unofficial patch because there's a bug preventing you from finding all the recipes. It's still quite fun to play through it a couple of times. Playing solo is quite challenging. Lots of good memories from the co-op.
It's abandonware. Amazing concept and game but the Devs are total and complete morons who won't take the roughly 15 minutes necessary to come up with a patch to make the gameplay better. It's a genuine shame. Don't buy under any circumstances unless magically the devs come back and actually do their jobs.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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NECROPOLIS: BRUTAL EDITION scores 14/100 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/384490/necropolis-brutal-editionThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 23, price as of Sep 24.
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