Descenders
Worth it · Roguelike · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $6.24.
- Length
- 5.3h
- Value
- $1.18/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia Geforce GTX 550/equivalent or higher*, 17 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Descenders is extreme downhill freeriding for the modern era, with procedurally generated worlds, and where mistakes have real consequences. Will you lead your team to glory and become the next legendary Descender?
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
August 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $4.99. Its cuts run 60 percent off as a rule. There have been 70 in the 9 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 6 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Superflight ($2.99, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats Lonely Mountains: Downhill ($19.99, scores 57).
Critics scored it 78. Players sit 16 points higher at 94 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 20 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2023 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 71 percent of the 1,254 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 5.3 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 67, 13 times as much.
The drop-off
70% start to 10% finishA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
464 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 10:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Fun with friends very replayable very recommed if u have friends cuz carrer fun and playing with friends fun in genral think i got this on alike a 20% sale tho so yeah.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Descenders scores 83/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/681280/descendersReviews 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 17, price as of Oct 1.
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