Apocryph: an old-school shooter
Skip · Shooter · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 0, under the fair line, at $14.99.
- Length
- 3h 7.5h to 100%
- Value
- $5.00/hr
- Reviews
- 52% of 317 positive
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What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Apocryph is an old-school fantasy shooter inspired by Hexen, Heretic, Painkiller and Strife.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, GeForce 9800GT or equivalent, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
The value story
January 2020 is where it bottomed out, at $1.49. Across all 13 discounts in the 8 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 9 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 61 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 93 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Prodeus ($24.99, scores 58) and Nightmare of Decay ($4.99, scores 91) both outscore it.
More about Apocryph: an old-school shooter
Inside the two-hour refund window, 41 percent of the 146 reviews written there were positive, against 52 percent overall, and those are 50 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 3 hours; clearing it takes 8, which is 2.5 times the campaign.
The drop-off
59% start to 5% 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
Scam game full of flaws, with a lot of promises but abandoned soon after initial release.
1 more review, not recommended
I feel like this had potential but it really doesn't work for what it's trying to be. I think the main way it misses the mark is weapon variety. Most of the games it replicates have if not a ton of weapons at least a few distinct ones. The way the magic weapons work in this is just a little too samey, all shooting colored blobs that sort of explode on hitting an enemy or maybe don't (there isn't a lot of feedback...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Apocryph: an old-school shooter scores 0/100 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/596240/apocryph-an-old-school-shooterReviews 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 13. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.