SACRALITH : The Archer`s Tale

SACRALITH : The Archer`s Tale

Skip · Shooter · 2018

The verdict

WAIT.

It has sold at a fair price before.

Today

$19.99Skip

On its price record

$14.44Fair

Length
3h
Value
$6.66/hr
Reviews
85% of 265 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at $14.44 or less.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 1 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
Engagement18% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$6.66/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews85% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 83% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 110 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

SACRALITH: The Archer's Tale is a VR bow-and-arrow shooter. Help your AI companions as you pass various locations together toward the game's main goal: the magic stone called Sacralith that grants you power over dragons.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, GTX 970, 11 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

It has been discounted 32 times in the 8 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

Value puts it in the top 46 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 75 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 60 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Blade and Sorcery ($29.99, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats STRIDE ($19.99, scores 33).

More about SACRALITH : The Archer`s Tale

Steam's global achievement data puts about 18 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 3-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Inside the two-hour refund window, 73 percent of the 113 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 44 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

47% start to 18% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

A normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements

What players say

shooting arrows to a bunch of enemies that's fighting against ur AI ally. how hard is that ? 1. shoot arrow to a farway incoming enemy. missed 2. shoot arrow to an enemy occupied in fighting against my ally to his back. shoot. he's moving, and... missed 3. arrgh. ok then. shoot arrow to 4 enemies closed together occupied in fighting my ally. So many targets, should got 1 of them. All of them suddenly moving and open...
fire888Recommendedafter 2.4hOct 2023Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
This game is awesome, atmospheric action packed and it gets you moving. The scenery was beautify done and I encountered not a single bug or performance issue. DLCs and sequels please.
SpiderMonkeyRecommendedafter 2.5hJul 2023Read on Steam
Yet another two hour VR archery game (with the usual VR Tax) bloating the Steam VR catalog. The game looks and sounds great, but it's so short and repetitive that I don't think it's worth playing (especially considering almost every other VR game tries to cram in archery too). There's a skill tree with different magical arrows and abilities to unlock, but progression on it is saved per level: if you load a level...
an_actual_whaleNot recommendedafter 2.6hJun 2024Read 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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SACRALITH : The Archer`s Tale scores 46/100 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/704360/sacralith-the-archer-s-tale
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Reviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

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Details

DeveloperOdd Meter
PublisherOdd Meter
GenreShooter
Released2018
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements9