Open Sorcery
Worth it · RPG · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $3.99, a BANGER if it drops to $3.11.
- Length
- 1.1h 5h to 100%
- Value
- $3.63/hr
- Reviews
- 98% of 361 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.11 or less.
Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 590 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
About the game
BEL/S is an Elemental Firewall: a fire elemental bound with C++ code to protect a network of people and places. She can learn things, develop relationships, and even gain sapience. Or she can burn everything with fire. It's up to you.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, N/A, 246 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
Across all 18 discounts in the 10 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 18 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $3.11. The record reaches that level 16 times.
Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 78 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Citizen Sleeper ($5.99, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats Buddy Simulator 1984 ($9.99, scores 79).
More about Open Sorcery
Steam's global achievement data puts about 7 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 1.1-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Inside the two-hour refund window, 99 percent of the 103 reviews written there were positive, against 98 percent overall, and those are 33 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 1.1 hours; clearing it takes 5, which is 4.5 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 1.1 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
34% start to 7% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
What players say
games like this prove you don't need 90 terabytes of hyperimmersive 8D quantum ray traced graphics running on a reactor cooled GPU farm to make something memorable...just a nice concept and a bit of soul
2 more reviews
I'm a grown ass manly man... and I cried a little. A very pleasant experience. The main storyline can be finished in about 4 hours, takes about twice that much to figure out all story branches. No issues, runs on a potato. Highly recommended for anyone who likes reading.
So fun! The developer makes wonderful text-based adventure games. I enjoyed "16 Ways to Kill a Vampire at McDonalds" from the same developer as well.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Open Sorcery scores 80/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/585180/open-sorceryReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.