ELDERBORN
Fair · Action · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 4.7h
- Value
- $3.19/hr
- Reviews
- 86% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
ELDERBORN - a Metal AF* Slasher with brutal FPP melee combat and souls-like/RPG character progression. In the times of legend, barbarian tribes need a new dark messiah. Be that merciless slayer. Uncover ancient secrets in the city of doom. Forge your own destiny! *Action Fantasy.
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
It has never been cheaper than $2.69. That was March 2026. Its cuts run 60 percent off as a rule. There have been 69 in the 8 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 10 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 85 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Thymesia ($6.24, scores 62) beats it on value, while it beats Corpse Keeper ($19.99, scores 34).
15 of the 546 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 65 percent of the 428 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 19 percent of everything written about it.
4.7 hours to finish it, 15 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.2 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 4.7 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
61% start to 1% rarestNo 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
Players
1 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 01:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Awesome game! Great fun for a few bucks. I completely missed this gem when it was released and just discovered by sheer coincidence. Buy it - I want a sequel(or prequel, who cares).
Like if Elden Ring and DOOM had a baby. This is so much fun, there's not really anything to tell you where to go or what to do, but it's pretty closed loop, so there's a satisfying certainty to figure it out. Loads of weapons, challenges, and rewarding leveling system, but punishing that forces you to stop and learn the patterns and mechanics. Absolutely recommend.
Pretty fun, gets a bit repetitive in the middle but perfect runtime for what it is. Satisfying hammer action
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
ELDERBORN scores 53/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/727850/elderbornReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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