Magicka
Worth it · RPG · 2011
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$9.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$2.4975% offWorth it
- Cost per hourS
- $0.95/hr
- Reviews▼
- 85% of 32,150
- Critics
- 74 players 11 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 7% RPG
Holding it back: Reviews, Recent reviews
Why
Recent reviews trending down: 46% over the last 30 days against 85% all-time.
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.49 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 10.5h
- To 100%
- 47.1h 4.5x the story
- Finish
- 1% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 88
Price and sales
- Sales
- 114 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $1.99 October 2015
- Sale every
- 34d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 16 now
- Recent reviews
- 46% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 38% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 87% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
84% start to 1% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 114 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 7 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 62 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 87 percent. Among the games that feel like it, UnEpic ($12.99, scores 85) beats it on value, while it beats Magicka 2 ($14.99, scores 64).
More about Magicka
74 from critics against 85 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 1 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 10.5-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Players rate it 85 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 46 percent. Something recent has soured the room. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 11 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written November 2024 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 63 percent of the 2,152 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
10.5 hours to finish it, 47 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 4.5 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 31 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
In order to stop the review bomb on this glorious game, I must insist that while this game no longer has any official support, there is a community patch that has an easy installation that my friend and I used to play this game together again with minimal issues. To everyone who is giving a negative review on this game, I cast Lightning, Lightning, Fire, Life upon you.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
What else can be said about this masterpiece of a game that hasn't already been said? It's incredibly unique, fun and challenging. Best played with friends but it's also a very fun solo game as well, albeit a bit more frustrating. The rules are simple, yet deceptively deep. There are so many things you can do with the magic system that it can take you many hours to discover everything. The game also has a boat load...
Short single player and Unfunny jokes with pop culture references. Coop is meh and single player is just a chore
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Magicka is a satirical action-adventure game set in a rich fantasy world based on Norse mythology. The player assumes the role of a wizard from a sacred order tasked with stopping an evil sorcerer who has thrown the world into turmoil, his foul creations besieging the forces of good.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 8800 or ATI Radeon X1900 (Integrated Video Cards not recommended), 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
Magicka scores 68/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/42910/magickaReviews 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 4, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.