Absolver
Skip · Action · 2017
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 22, under the fair line, at $29.99.
- Cost per hour▼
- $5.88/hr
- Reviews▼
- 73% of 14,843
- Critics
- 75 players 2 lower
- Genre rank
- Top 70% Action
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 5.1h
- To 100%
- 20.2h 4.0x the story
- Achievements
- 22
Price and sales
- Sales
- 72 on record
- Typical cut
- 80% off
- Steam low
- $2.99 December 2024
- Sale every
- 42d last September 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 8 now
- Cheaper than
- 2% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 44% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
61% start to 1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 72 times in the 9 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 80 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Overgrowth ($19.99, scores 44) beats it on value, while it beats 8BitMMO (free, scores 6).
More about Absolver
15 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2021 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,368 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 691 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 37 percent of the 1,192 reviews written there were positive, against 73 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 5.1 hours; clearing it takes 20, which is 4.0 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 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
What players say
played this a decade ago when it was free with PS plus and didn't understand it and overthought the stance system. Now replaying it, I absolutely love the game. the combat is so fluid and the dodging (if you pick the dodging class) is super satisfying. whenever I died, I never felt angry or cheated, just happy to learn from the experience and grow as a player. patience with the game is rewarding because once it...
2 more reviews
Still desperately wishing for a true sequel. Multiplayer unfortunately pretty dead, but I still go back to this one once in awhile. It is built on an incredible fighting engine with a lot of freedom. I spent many hours just playing around with different combinations for fighting styles, practical or not. Takes quite a bit of effort if you want to go for the 100%, and even just completing the game can be quite...
The artsyle and combat gameplay is pretty good, but you have to backtrack a lot and defeat the same bosses often. The traveling movement is slow and uses up stamina, kind of like breath of the wild. 世界観と戦闘のゲームプレイは良いけど、同じマップを行き来して同じボスを繰り返して倒さないといけない。マップの行き来も、ブレワイのように、スタミナを消費するから遅い。
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Absolver is an online multiplayer combat game where players are placed behind the mask of a Prospect under control of the Guides, the new rulers of the fallen Adal Empire, who will determine your worth in joining their elite corps of Absolvers.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 480 (1536 MB) / Radeon HD 7850 (2048 MB), 11 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
Absolver scores 22/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/473690/absolverReviews 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 Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.