Einar

Einar

Skip · Shooter · 2017

The verdict

SKIP IT.

The reviews do not carry it. What it costs you is time.

Length
0.4h
Price
Free to play
Reviews
61% positive
Length
0.4h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
0.5h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
Free
price ÷ main-story length
Price
Free
Reviews
61%
1,425 reviews, as of Sep 27
Players
350K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2017

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 / AMD Radeon R7 240, 1.5 GB of storage. Windows only.

The player takes on the role of Einar, who is on a quest to kill the inhabitants of a Norse fishing village who are infected by a mysterious material. Use different weapons such as the bow, hammer and axe to clear the village of the monsters.
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Raising the score
ValueFree
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Holding it back
Reviews61% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 62% after the small-sample adjustment
Reach350K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). A free game has no price to weigh, so this is its value read
For context
Length0.4 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
RefundsFree
A free game cannot be refunded, so the label never applies
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

It is less well reviewed than 87 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Midas Gold Plus - Idle Clicker (free, scores 64) beats it on value, while it beats Nomad (free, scores 6).

1 players were online in it when we last checked, on Oct 1, 09:50 UTC.

Players

1 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 09:50 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Einar scores 9/100 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/674400/einar
Embed the live badge

Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27.

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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperDreamPunks
PublisherDreamPunks
GenreShooter
Released2017