Valfaris
Skip · Action · 2019
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 43, under the fair line, at $24.99.
- Length
- 7.2h
- Value
- $3.47/hr
- Reviews
- 82% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 696 MB of storage. Windows only.
Set in a far corner of space, Valfaris is a heavy metal infused 2D action-platformer and the next game from the team behind Unity Awards finalist, Slain: Back From Hell. Brutal combat. Deadly enemies. Stunning pixel art. Savage soundtrack. Get ready to rip the galaxy a new wormhole.
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
October 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $2.49. It has been discounted 70 times in the 7 years tracked here, typically at 70 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales.
On value it sits in the top 22 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 85 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Blasphemous ($24.99, scores 64) beats it on value, while it beats Slain: Back from Hell ($12.99, scores 27).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 2 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 7.2-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 519 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 4 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 70 percent of the 365 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 21 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 7.2 hours. Doing everything runs 20, 2.8 times as long.
At 7.2 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
94% start to 2% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 7.2-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
11 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 14:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I've tired of this game. Hope to finish it someday, but not now. Despite the many things I like about it, don't recommend. I believe that making game difficult makes the requirements for the mastery of design much higher. This game is difficult and though some places are fun in their challenge, the deeper you are in the game - the more fun is sucked off. You just constantly replaying the every stage from checkpoint...
If you like platform shooters, this is a no brainer. EDIT: Got to the end of the game and had no resurrection idols so it was impossible. It turns you have to keepo them to increase your life so I felt dumb. My bad! Except on a new game... this mechanic is never explained. Uninstall and review changed to negative. The devs can eat butt.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Valfaris scores 43/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/600130/valfarisReviews 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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