Book of Demons
Worth it · Roguelike · 2018
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
$24.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$6.2475% off
- Cost per hour
- $2.50/hr
- ReviewsA
- 91% of 9,442
- Critics
- 72 players 19 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 8% Roguelike
Holding it back: Reach
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $6.24 or less.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 10h
- To 100%
- 36h 3.6x the story
- Finish
- 2% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 202
Price and sales
- Sales
- 94 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $2.49 January 2024
- Sale every
- 36d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 3 now
- Cheaper than
- 3% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 86% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
87% start to <1% rarestA 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
The value story
The value story
94 discounts in the 10 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 8 percent. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 86 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Hand of Fate 2 ($5.99, scores 61) and Tower of Babel: Survivors of Chaos ($12.99, scores 23).
More about Book of Demons
Critics scored it 72. Players sit 19 points higher at 91 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
This site sampled 488 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 7 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to February 2022. Inside the two-hour refund window, 67 percent of the 685 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 10 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 36, 3.6 times as much.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $6.24 (75% off). Predictions like this were right 91% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Last discount ended 29 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
The support for this game is fantastic. I found a minor issue that prevented me from finding all objects in a level (nothing major), so I posted in the community about the problem. Within hours I received a reply that the developer was on the way to fixing the issue. I've sent my save file and received a fixed version of the file on the same evening. The issue in the game's code has been resolved. This is how every...
2 more reviews
I'm surprised at how much I'm enjoying Book of Demons, and I definitely recommend it. However, I do want to make sure that other buyers of the game understand what they're getting. I was looking for a new game with controller support in the dungeon crawling and hack and slash genres, and this game came up. That's not exactly accurate, though. Book of Dungeons is understandably a dungeon crawler, because it takes...
Amazing adaptation of that famous game. Great game to kill some time at the office while procrastinating :) Definitely made with passion. Full price/discount price it doesn't matter, you won't regret it if you're an isometric ARPG veteran
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Book of Demons is a Hack & Slash in which YOU decide the length of quests. Wield magic cards instead of weapons and slay the armies of darkness in the dungeons below the Old Cathedral. Save the terror-stricken Paperverse from the clutches of the Archdemon himself!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 512 MB DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics card, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Cite this score
Book of Demons scores 77/100 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/449960/book-of-demonsReviews 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 Oct 14, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.