Monster Slayers

Monster Slayers

Fair · Roguelike · 2017

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $8.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
10.4h
Value
$0.86/hr
Reviews
79% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
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Length
10.4h
typical playtime (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
124.1h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$0.86
price ÷ typical playtime
Price
$8.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
79%
1,271 reviews, as of Sep 27
Metacritic
86
critic score
Players
350K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2017

Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, OpenGL 2.1 compatible 3D graphics card with 256 MB VRAM, 41 MB of storage. Windows only.

Monster Slayers is a rogue-like deck-building RPG adventure. Create a hero and choose your path through the perilous Northern Valley as you battle monsters to become a legendary Monster Slayer!
Description from the Steam store page.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Reviews79% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach350K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$0.86/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
Length10 hours
Typical playtime on HowLongToBeat. Endless games score on players, so hours stay out of it
Refunds1 of 289 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

The lowest price on record is $1.34, set in May 2020. It has been discounted 92 times in the 10 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 4 weeks between sales.

It is cheaper than 66 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Roguebook ($24.99, scores 60) beats it on value, while it beats Deck of Ashes ($19.99, scores 28).

This site sampled 289 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to June 2026.

HowLongToBeat players log 10.4 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 124, 12 times as much.

The drop-off

75% start to 2% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

7 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 01:49 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

This game is HIGHLY underrated for the price. I have over 700 hours in Slay The Spire and this is probably the only rouge lite deck builder that actually has the same amount of variety albeit in different ways. Deck building is concise and rewarding, and progression feels really good when you get stronger. I found myself playing this from time to time even though i cleared the whole game. Also the original dev got...
ChibiRadRecommendedafter 54hMar 2026Read on Steam
Kind of a poor man's Slay the Spire. Better in some regards - faster feeling of progression and more variety, better map based levels.
SparkasaurusmexRecommendedafter 72hMar 2026Read on Steam
Great update, lo-o-ove the new game-breaking bugs like the Altar tile destroying your run by glitching out.
Rin D. PrydeNot recommendedafter 4.4h2 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

Cite this score

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Monster Slayers scores 51/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/496620/monster-slayers
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Reviews 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 Sep 27, price as of Oct 1.

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Critics vs players-7
Critics
86
Players
79
Critics and players agree on this one.
Metacritic critics · 1,271 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperNerdook Productions
PublisherNerdook Productions
GenreRoguelike
Released2017
Achievements22