Downward: Enhanced Edition
Skip · Narrative · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 30, under the fair line, at $1.49.
- Length
- 5.6h 12.5h to 100%
- Value
- $0.27/hr
- Reviews
- 71% of 567 positive
Full price
Today
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Downward is a first-person open-world parkour based platform adventure set in the medieval ruins of a post-apocalyptic planet Earth. Make your way through breath-taking landscapes, face ancient guardians and unravel the deep mystery that lies behind the disappearance of humanity.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Geforce GTX 750 or AMD R9 270, 7 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 85 times in the 10 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 70 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today's $1.49 at 85 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
It is pricier than 67 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 74 percent. Valley ($14.99, scores 65) outscores it, and so does Die Young ($2.49, scores 55). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Downward: Enhanced Edition
Inside the two-hour refund window, 47 percent of the 141 reviews written there were positive, against 71 percent overall, and those are 28 percent of everything written about it.
5.6 hours to finish it, 13 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.2 times the campaign.
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
What players say
This game is such huge disappointment. It starts really strong, it looks nice, it feels nice, it has a lot to explore and collect. And then everythning goes down. Wall jumping and climbing is so wonky that quite often you die/fall down not even knowing why. Fighting enemies is boring and their range is inconsistent. Boss is boring and annoying at the same time. Then you have some weird huge platforming level after...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I don't think I can really recommend this to anyone. I was recommended this game cause I wanted a game similar to Metroid Prime. I heard that it has metroid like progression with Prince of Persia-esque parkour all in 1st person. Conceptually I should really like this game, and I really wanted to, but it hurts me to say it didn't really live up to my expectations. I will say graphically it's great for an indie game...
Good parkour game with some interesting mechanics. I found it to be quite forgiving in the open world section. The skyboxes used are great to look at and the graphics are decent maxed out. The story is fairly standard, I feel like this would be a great prologue for a story introducing this world, not the meat and bones of the world. The parkour challenge stages are really hard to get a gold medal on and requires...
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Cite this score
Downward: Enhanced Edition scores 30/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/506900/downward-enhanced-editionReviews 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 Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.