Deathstate: Abyssal Edition

Deathstate: Abyssal Edition

Fair · Roguelike · 2015

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
1.7h
Value
$5.88/hr
Reviews
86% of 358 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

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
Reviews86% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 84% 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$5.88/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 59 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

Deathstate is a roguelike bullet hell adventure set in a bizarre world of dimensional exploration. Play as a number of unique characters trying to discover the fate of Professor Elinberg who opened a portal to the void. Are you ready to venture deep into the abyss?
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Discrete video card, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

The value story

June 2017 is where it bottomed out, at $1.99. It has been discounted 23 times in the 11 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 8 weeks apart.

On value it sits in the top 39 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 62 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Realm of the Mad God Exalt (free, scores 61) beats it on value, while it beats Overture ($4.99, scores 40).

More about Deathstate: Abyssal Edition

Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 1.7 hours it is short enough to finish on one.

The drop-off

94% start to 40% 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

Players

Players online
1 when we last checked, on Oct 14, 03:51 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

Awesome, underrated roguelite. I only wish the dev did more with it. It could use some DLC or a sequel.... It has an OK amount of content. But compared to other roguelites, not really(especially more recent ones) It could use more power ups, monsters and realms. The dev hasn't done much else, so why not?
RetroRecommendedafter 21hMay 2025Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
This is like the much more difficult predecessor of the auto-battler/shooter genre that exploded with Vampire Survivor. If you want a bit of a challenge...or a lot of challenge because its super hard on hard lol but definitely reasonable on normal. Check it out, it'snot bad for full price, even better if you catch it on sale 8.5/10
ChubbyChuloRecommendedafter 20hNov 2024Read on Steam
The best thing about this game is that I will never have to play it again It is hard for me to write this review. I really wanted to like this game. Years ago, I thought it looked amazing and I stopped playing it because I became obsessed with completing it while collecting an element called Desecration in order to get a very difficult achievement. After years, I finally managed to do that and more. Recently, after...
AmelouthNot recommendedafter 33hDec 2025Read on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Deathstate: Abyssal Edition scores 58/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/402120/deathstate-abyssal-edition
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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 11. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperBread Machine Games
PublisherBread Machine Games
GenreRoguelike
Released2015
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements38