In Celebration of Violence

In Celebration of Violence

Fair · Roguelike · 2018

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $7.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
50h 202h to 100%
Value
$0.16/hr
Reviews
87% of 507 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 882 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

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

Holding it back
Reviews87% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 85% after the small-sample adjustment
Reach150K+ 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$0.16/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 170 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

About the game

A fantasy action roguelike of exploration and murder. Live, kill, die, improve, live again.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, AMD Radeon HD 5570, 348 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

The value story

41 discounts in the 10 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 126 weeks ago.

On value it sits in the top 30 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 69 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 67 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Dead Cells ($24.99, scores 95) beats it on value, while it beats Dungeon Souls ($12.99, scores 37).

More about In Celebration of Violence

HowLongToBeat players log 50 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 202, 4.0 times as much.

The drop-off

45% 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

What players say

i like murder, rage when die, come back for more, derpy game, scary monsters, fun 8$
Afterbucket6491Recommendedafter 16hSep 2025Read on Steam
1 more review
This is one of the best and most creative games I've ever played. There are some physics-related bugs here and there and I had to cut short one run in which the amount of blood (caused by stacking of a particular memento) made the performance to drop to sub-frame-a-second levels, but that happens when you're really going nuts into a NG+4 run or so.
cfiendRecommendedafter 173hMar 2025Read on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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In Celebration of Violence scores 62/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/509570/in-celebration-of-violence
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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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperJulian Edison
PublisherJulian Edison
GenreRoguelike
Released2018
Players150Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements86