Fall of Light: Darkest Edition
Skip · RPG · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 2, under the fair line, at $14.99.
- Length
- 8.1h 20.1h to 100%
- Value
- $1.85/hr
- Reviews
- 55% of 325 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 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
Fall of Light is a story-driven dungeon crawler set within a world consumed by Darkness, where an old warrior takes his daughter to see the last remnants of sunlight. Only together will they be strong enough to defeat the enemies born from the Shadow.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce GTX560 Ti 1GB VRAM or better, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
It has been discounted 57 times in the 9 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 80 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 77 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 96 percent. On the same math Legendary Tales ($39.99, scores 26) and Death's Door ($19.99, scores 73) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about Fall of Light: Darkest Edition
69 on Metacritic, 55 percent from players. A gap this way round is usually launch damage or a slow decline.
8.1 hours to finish it, 20 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.5 times the campaign.
At 8.1 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
52% start to 2% 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
To note: I'm not a fan of Souls-like or am any good at them so take what I have to say with a grain of salt because I'm going to pour a lot on this. I got this game through I believe either a humble bundle or one of the YogsCast Jingle Jam bundles. It is a fun and interesting game that does not really offer much in terms of replayability. Almost 100% it the first time through, I probably could have just gotten the...
1 more review, not recommended
Unplayable on current macOS. Runs at less than 1FPS on a top-of-the-line mac. Still labeled as 32-bit even though that's not true.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Fall of Light: Darkest Edition scores 2/100 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/633950/fall-of-light-darkest-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 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.