Skelly Selest

Skelly Selest

Worth it · Roguelike · 2018

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $4.99.

Length
2.1h 15h to 100%
Value
$2.38/hr
Reviews
93% of 286 positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
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

Raising the score
Reviews93% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 90% after the small-sample adjustment
Holding it back
Reach35K+ 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$2.38/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 84 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

Skelly Selest is a score-attack hack slash dash run 'n' gun-athon. Venture into the procedurally generated perdition depths of Hell to purge the evil taint of the Deamonica Netherlords and their fiendly followers.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 1 GB VRAM, 205 MB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

84 discounts in the 8 years on record, a median of 35 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

On value it sits in the top 20 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 83 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 81 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Wizard of Legend ($15.99, scores 77) beats it on value, while it beats Dungeon Souls ($12.99, scores 37).

More about Skelly Selest

HowLongToBeat players log 2.1 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 15, 7.1 times as much.

The drop-off

70% start to 3% 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

The Skelly Selest Soundtrack contains 20 pleasant and upbeat chiptune songs from royalty-free composers Ozzed and Rolemusic . The songs are mostly adventure-themed and help get you into the groove of exploring a dungeon but unfortunately don't match the dark and grim aesthetic of the game. Although I enjoy the genre as a whole, none of these songs particularly resonated with me and I wouldn't listen to the...
zZzRecommendedafter 6.3hOct 2024Read on Steam
2 more reviews
I am begrudingly changing my review to Recommend after playing a bit more and realizing how addictive the RNG aspect is. However, my criticism as follows still remains relevant: See, the mechanics are cool, the aesthetic is crunchy and all but when I die over and over for no fault of my own but because the game just cannot accept aim input properly, there is just no reason to play it. I cannot care about any...
ASTROCHRONICRecommendedafter 1.4hJul 2024Read on Steam
This game hits all the cool points of a roguelike that I need, cool characters, unique items, bosses and exploration... really cool game, remember You can do it. Skeleton.
SaIvatoreRecommendedafter 471hNov 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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Skelly Selest scores 69/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/685400/skelly-selest
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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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

Developercaiys
Publishercaiysware
GenreRoguelike
Released2018
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements42