Dandara: Trials of Fear Edition
Skip · Action · 2018
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 47, under the fair line, at $14.99.
- Length
- 6.8h
- Value
- $2.20/hr
- Reviews
- 81% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GT 220, Radeon HD 8400, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
In a bizarre universe where the oppressed are on the brink of oblivion, Dandara has awoken to reshape the world.
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
The lowest price on record is $2.99, set in May 2022. 74 discounts in the 9 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 17 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 85 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 82 percent. Gato Roboto ($7.99, scores 82) outscores it, and so does Moonscars ($19.99, scores 51). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
The press gave it 70; the people who bought it give it 81 percent. An 11-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 6 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 6.8-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 388 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, 60 percent of the 136 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 6.8 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
93% start to 6% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 6.8-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
1 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 07:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
The choice of making you move around by leaping from surface to surface it's an original concept, but originality alone doesn't make a game good or appealing. At least in my opinion. I am not trying to say this game is terrible, it's just that the novelty of playing this way kinda wears off after a while and just becomes an annoying way to traverse and fight. I think a way to improve this would have been to simply...
Well, what an interesting game. I'll say this, the art style, story and even gameplay concepts presented here are really unique. However, unique doesn't really mean good unfortunately. The movement in this game is point and jump, linear movement to a surface, but in several occasions now I've had the game force my trajectory to where it though I wanted to go and not where I actually wanted to go. I can't think of...
A good metroidvania with an interesting central mechanic. Loved seeing the Brazilian inspired art design. Combat could have used a bit more time in the oven but I could tell it wasn't the central focus and I'm glad the team spent their time elsewhere. 7/10 would recommend for someone who would ask about it.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Dandara: Trials of Fear Edition scores 47/100 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/612390/dandara-trials-of-fear-editionReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.
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