The Siege and the Sandfox
Skip · Action · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 15, under the fair line, at $14.99.
- Length
- 8.5h
- Value
- $1.76/hr
- Reviews
- 64% of 214 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 6 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
A 2D stealth Metroidvania with parkour platforming. Explore the majestic palace and ancient prisons of a kingdom under siege. Don the mantle of the legendary Sandfox as you venture into the ruins below, and discover the true threat from a sand-borne evil.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Intel UHD Graphics 630, 1.2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
15 discounts in the 17 months on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 88 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Owlboy ($19.99, scores 52) and HAAK ($17.99, scores 67) both outscore it.
More about The Siege and the Sandfox
Steam's global achievement data puts about 11 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On an 8.5-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 8.5 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
86% start to 11% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 6 when we last checked, on Oct 5, 17:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I held off playing the siege and the sandfox for about a year after the poor reception, hoping for a patch to smooth things ou. That patch never came so i figured i might as well get it over with and clear it off my backlog. Turns out the game was much better than the ratings had led me to believe. Doesn't mean this game is flawless though, it has many issues that no doubt contributed to its mixed reviews. It's just...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Okay, what many of the other reviews are saying is true: this game still has way too many bugs*. It clearly would have required more quality assurance and more bug-fixing attention from the devs**. However, I'm sill giving it a "thumbs up", and here's why: it's also truly special and I've enjoyed it enormously. The Siege and the Sandfox has a good story and even better storytelling, great atmosphere, beautiful pixel...
Yes, it's a good game : beautiful pixel art, interesting gameplay, good level design... But I can't recommand it. More than a year after it release, it is still full of bugs. Yes you can play it, you can even finish it. But the huge number of bugs is very annoying.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Siege and the Sandfox scores 15/100 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/653060/the-siege-and-the-sandfoxReviews 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 30, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.