Nine Parchments
Skip · Shooter · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 32, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Reviews▼
- 77% of 4,771
- Genre rank
- Top 60% Shooter
Holding it back: Reviews, Length unknown
Why
Watch this gameOne alert when a sale makes it a BANGER.
Time and effort
- Finish
- 26% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 54
Price and sales
- Sales
- 84 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $3.99 March 2025
- Sale every
- 35d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 13 now
- Cheaper than
- 16% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 46% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
87% start to 26% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
84 discounts in the 9 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 9 days ago.
It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Magicka ($9.99, scores 68) and Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition ($19.99, scores 60) both outscore it.
More about Nine Parchments
Steam's global achievement data puts 26 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 7 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 49 percent of the 571 reviews written there were positive, against 77 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 9 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
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
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. The score is docked for the missing length.
About the game
Runaway wizard apprentices, stolen spells, and no supervision. Blast, freeze and electrocute your way through a fairytale world in 1–4 player co-op, online or on the couch. Level up, collect staves and hats, and gather the Nine Parchments you need to complete your spellbook.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 1 GB Video RAM - NVIDIA GeForce 500 Series / Radeon HD 6000 Series, 7 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: length (HowLongToBeat), critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Nine Parchments scores 32/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. Length is not in our data, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/471550/nine-parchmentsReviews set the ceiling. With no length in our data, value sits at a neutral middle whatever the price, and the BANG Score is docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.