The End Is Nigh
BANGER · Action · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $14.99.
- Length
- 8.4h
- Value
- $1.78/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, dedicated graphics card (opengl 3.0 support or higher), 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The End Is Nigh is a sprawling adventure platformer where you die a lot, but thats ok because you are probably already dead anyway.
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
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $2.99. That was June 2020. Its cuts run 69 percent off as a rule. There have been 47 in the 9 years tracked, about 10 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, VVVVVV ($4.99, scores 96) beats it on value, while it beats SANABI ($14.99, scores 84).
The math says it holds its tier up to $54.38, and you are being asked for $14.99.
84 from critics against 94 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data puts 68 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. This site sampled 402 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 5 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 404 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 8.4 hours; clearing it takes 68, which is 8.1 times the campaign.
At 8.4 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
68% start to 68% 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
Players
12 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 03:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
It's like Mario except you're a chud ball of cancer who sucks at video games that I love dearly!
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
The End Is Nigh scores 92/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/583470/the-end-is-nighReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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