Neon Abyss

Neon Abyss

Worth it · Roguelike · 2020

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 80% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$19.99Worth it

Typical seasonal cut

$4.9975% off

Cost per hour
$1.75/hr
Reviews▼
86% of 23,647
Genre rank
Top 17% Roguelike

Holding it back: Reviews

Why
No price makes it a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.99 or less.

Time and effort

Typical playtime
11.4h
To 100%
61.7h 5.4x the story
Achievements
35

Price and sales

Sales
57 on record
Typical cut
66% off
Steam low
$3.99 December 2025
Sale every
42d last October 2026
Lowest now $5.99 at GOGall-time low $2.88 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
123 now
Cheaper than
9% of its genre
Better reviewed
70% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

89% start to 1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

A 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

The value story

The value story

It has been discounted 57 times in the 6 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 66 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.

Its score sits in the top 17 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 70 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Ancient Dungeon ($19.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats ScourgeBringer ($16.99, scores 65).

More about Neon Abyss

Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 4 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2024 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 62 percent of the 1,077 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.

HowLongToBeat players log 11.4 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 62, 5.4 times as much.

Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 11.4 hours it is short enough to finish on one.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Last discount ended 16 days ago.

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Reach3.5M+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
MonetizationNone
No in-game purchases. Paid DLC exists and is not docked
Holding it back
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Refunds4 of 800 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

What players say

i kept getting good stuff on the third dungeon phase and absolutely ruining myself because the screen was full of eggs and bullets and i kept running into the lil bad guys, my health went from max to nil in a matter of seconds LMAO
Bork BorkRecommendedafter 4.7h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews
Neon'd in that Abyss. Pretty good game. It do be like that sometimes dying after spending 30 minutes on a run. Fun game to not think too hard while playing.
Blitz_Recommendedafter 19hSep 2026Read on Steam
This game does not deserve "mixed", while other shallow cashgrab rougelikes get praised... This game is good!
PisseNisseRecommendedafter 4.9hSep 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

Neon Abyss is a frantic, roguelite action-platformer where you run ‘n’ gun your way into the Abyss. Featuring unlimited item synergies and a unique dungeon evolution system, each run diversifies the experience and every choice alters the ruleset.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Geforce 650, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Neon Abyss scores 69/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/788100/neon-abyss
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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 Nov 5, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Details

DeveloperVeewo Games
PublisherTeam17
GenreRoguelike
Released2020
Players3.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements35