Eagle Island Twist

Eagle Island Twist

Skip · Roguelike · 2019

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 41, under the fair line, at $9.99.

Length
5.3h
Value
$1.88/hr
Reviews
79% of 229 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales.

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

Holding it back
Reviews79% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 77% after the small-sample adjustment
Reach10K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$1.89/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 55 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Eagle Island is a roguelite action-platformer with falconry-inspired combat. Soar into an original story-driven adventure, fighting through procedurally generated levels and challenging boss fights. Includes free TWIST content, with new characters and handcrafted, retro-themed minigames.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel HD 4000, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

The value story

The lowest price on record is $6.99, set in June 2026. Across all 12 discounts in the 7 years tracked, the median cut is 40 percent, about 6 weeks apart.

It is less well reviewed than 60 percent of its genre. Haste ($11.99, scores 76) outscores it, and so does Pepper Grinder ($14.99, scores 54). Both sit among its closest neighbours.

More about Eagle Island Twist

It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 5.3 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.

The drop-off

24% start to 2% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

I got this game like 4 years ago, didnt get to play it bc I didnt have a controller back in the day now that I have I started playing this game like a month ago and got addicted to it, super fun but difficult, you will require to git gud in this game if you want to complete it, art direction is beautiful, gameplay is good plus it has an expansion called eagle island twist, I have not played it yet because I really...
IcestormRecommendedafter 43hJan 2026Read on Steam
1 more review, not recommended
Interesting atmosphere, and cool visuals and mechanic ideas, but it couldn't keep me playing near endgame. There are many dungeons that start to feel too repetitive, especially given how easy it is to die on later levels (a lot of which seem like rearrangements of early dungeons). Clearly quite a bit of love put in, but not something I could recommend unfortunately.
falsesouthNot recommendedafter 7.6hSep 2023Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Eagle Island Twist scores 41/100 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/681110/eagle-island-twist
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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 30, price as of Oct 17. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperPixelnicks
PublisherRetroware
GenreRoguelike
Released2019
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements34