Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon
Worth it · Action · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99, a BANGER if it drops to $5.46.
- Length
- 2.2h
- Value
- $4.54/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 512MB VRAM (NVIDIA GeForce), 502 MB of storage. Windows only.
Battle with swords and whips in this retro-style action game brought to you by game creator Koji Igarashi and Inti Creates! Play as Zangetsu, a demon slayer bearing a deep grudge, who must travel through perilous lands to defeat a powerful demon lurking in a dark castle.
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
The lowest price on record is $4.99, set in December 2019. It has been discounted 70 times in the 8 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. It becomes a BANGER at $5.46, a level the record has reached 62 times.
On value it sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 71 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Gato Roboto ($7.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Valfaris ($24.99, scores 43).
77 from critics against 94 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
4 of the 435 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, 78 percent of the 612 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 2.2 hours; clearing it takes 10, which is 4.6 times the campaign.
The drop-off
82% start to 7% 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
6 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 00:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Day 1: I considered refunding this game. Day 2: Finished normal mode on Casual, I considered refunding this game. ... Day 4: Platinum'd (Everything else played on Veteran), I think I love this game. After having played a game like Astalon: Tears of the Earth, Bloodstained's controls were a bit painful to get used to. The game lost me when I lost all my lifes on stage two due to falling into pits from this game's...
A clone of the great Castlevania. Gorgeous sound, pixelated graphics and gloomy atmosphere. The game has been hardcore for a long time and is quite difficult at times. But it's definitely worth watching, especially for fans of Castlevania and old-school platformers.
Classic Castlevania gameplay that wears its influence from Castlevania 3 on its sleeve. This is a homage done right whilst adding a few own ideas as well.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon scores 74/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/838310/bloodstained-curse-of-the-moonReviews 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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