Primal Light
Fair · Action · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $7.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 3.5h 9.8h to 100%
- Value
- $2.28/hr
- Reviews
- 81% of 426 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 4 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 49 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
About the game
Inhabit Krog, a mysterious blue creature in a red loincloth, as he traverses a labyrinth of ladders, levers, traps, and monsters. Explore the nooks and crannies of a bizarre and evocative world as you hack and slash your way to victory, leaving a graveyard of grotesque bosses in your wake.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 4600, or equivalent, 205 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
Across all 40 discounts in the 6 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 7 weeks ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 12 percent on value. It is pricier than 61 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 80 percent. On the same math SANABI ($14.99, scores 84) and Tcheco in the Castle of Lucio ($0.99, scores 79) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about Primal Light
Steam's global achievement data puts about 13 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 3.5-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 327 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 65 percent of the 110 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 34 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 3.5 hours; clearing it takes 10, which is 2.8 times the campaign.
The drop-off
47% start to 13% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
What players say
What a poorly balanced attempt at a retro side scroller... The premise is neat, the level aesthetics are cool, even the character is cool. There are secret areas with power-ups and that's also cool. Unfortunately, the cool stuff stops there. There are so many QoL features missing from this title, that are found in similar style games from 30 years ago. Remember in Castlevania IV how you could spin your whip around...
2 more reviews, 2 not recommended
Bloodstained? More like Retrostained. Indeed, this action platformer that takes quite the inspiration from titles like Castlevania adding more movement options as well as a more refined pixel art presentation with bright colors and different scenarios unfortunately is stuck with a level design from the late 80s. Indeed, it features lots of annoying enemy placements that along with a knockback effect, pits and the...
Worst game I've ever played. I regret buying this SO much. Gameplay is horrible, third stage boss is too damn hard. No way to return to previous stages to gather power ups. The controls are so janky that action-play is not possible, yet the game requires you to play it fluidly.
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No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Primal Light scores 51/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/771420/primal-lightReviews 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.