Pyre
Worth it · RPG · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99.
- Length
- 11.2h
- Value
- $1.78/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 1GB VRAM / OpenGL 2.1+ support, 9 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Pyre is a party-based RPG from the creators of Bastion and Transistor. Lead your band of exiles to freedom through a series of mystical competitions in the Campaign, or challenge a friend to a fast-paced ritual showdown in the head-to-head Versus Mode.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
April 2023 is where it bottomed out, at $3.99. It has been discounted 56 times in the 9 years tracked here, typically at 70 percent off, with about 8 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 8 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 4 percent on value. It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Bastion ($14.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats Pathologic Classic HD ($12.99, scores 54).
Critics scored it 82. Players sit 8 points higher at 90 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
6 of the 646 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,416 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,535 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 63 percent of the 739 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
81% start to 2% 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
10 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
Pyre is a very unique game. As someone who's obsessed with both of the Hades games, I recently decided to finally play the Supergiant games that came before them. I've heard several times that Pyre is the odd one out in Supergiant's catalogue because of how different it is from their other titles, which proved to be correct. The gameplay is nothing like Hades and nothing like Bastion or Transistor either (from what...
Honestly, this game is an amazing experience that I recommend everyone to try. - Amazing story - Compelling characters - Beautiful art style - Rewarding gameplay I love the hades series as much as the next person, but I still believe this game is Supergiant's real gem.
Fantastic gem of a game, one of a kind. The actual gameplay of the rites is in that perfect easy to learn, hard to master zone. On top of that, the fact that you can lose and the story just continues is amazing. I played on hard mode and when I lost to a team it just made the narrative more interesting. I wish more games tried that because I didn't feel the need to savescum at all. Though I will say is that at times...
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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Pyre scores 69/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/462770/pyreThe 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 Aug 1, price as of Sep 24.
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