Bloodroots

Bloodroots

Fair · Action · 2021

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
5.2h 8h to 100%
Value
$3.84/hr
Reviews
90% of 311 positive
It needs 64% off ($7.22) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $7.22 or less.

Buy now or wait

Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $5.99 (70% off). Calls like this were right 89% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.

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

Holding it back
Value$3.84/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews90% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 88% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 229 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

One-hit kill die-retry murderballet. Left for dead by a colorful band of bandits: you will chain killing sprees to exact revenge on the treacherous Mr. Black Wolf. Improvise your kills with utterly everything you can get your hands on: from carrots to plasma guns.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, DirectX 11 compatible graphics card, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

30 discounts in the 6 years on record, a median of 60 percent off across all of them, roughly 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 11 percent on value. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, APE OUT ($2.99, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats The Hong Kong Massacre ($19.99, scores 24).

More about Bloodroots

76 from critics against 90 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.

1 of the 229 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2021 to August 2026.

The drop-off

65% start to 2% 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

devastate the local foresting population in minutes using dead raccoons and carrots
asheRecommendedafter 25hJul 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I enjoyed the game but just that, I wouldn't play it again but it was just good, if you want it just wait for the steam sale, is not bad at all, but if you can play hotline Miami... of course I would give it a try dough
VurwolfRecommendedafter 19hJul 2026Read on Steam
Isometric Hotline MIami with platforming. Now that's the problem, because isometric games with platforming tend to not be very good because it's hard to tell where you are in relation to the camera. This is why some isometric platformers like to put a clear indicator under your feet so that you know exactly where you are jumping to, like a circle colored differently from the terrain. Bloodroots has a small black...
EatKimchiNot recommendedafter 1.1hMar 2026Read on Steam

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

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Bloodroots scores 53/100 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/820540/bloodroots
Embed the live badge

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.

Critics vs players+14
Critics76
Players90
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 311 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperPaper Cult
PublisherPaper Cult
GenreAction
Released2021
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements33