Tower Hunter: Erza's Trial
Skip · Roguelike · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 27, under the fair line, at $17.99.
- Length
- 6.5h
- Value
- $2.77/hr
- Reviews
- 71% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 3.9 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 460/Radeon HD 5800 or better, 3.9 GB of storage. Windows only.
Tower Hunter: Erza’s Trial contains core elements of roguelite games, presented in a toon render style. The player explores a mysterious tower with Erza, vanquishes mutant monsters and defeats bosses to acquire a Hunter’s License and become the most powerful Battle Maiden.
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 $1.43. That was March 2025. It has been discounted 76 times in the 8 years tracked here, typically at 70 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales.
It is pricier than 72 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 81 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Dark Devotion ($19.99, scores 35) and ScourgeBringer ($16.99, scores 65) both outscore it.
This site sampled 683 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 11 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 698 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 80 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 60 percent of the 518 reviews written there were positive, against 71 percent overall, and those are 28 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 6.5 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 19, 2.9 times as much.
The drop-off
86% start to 2% 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 28, 09:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
It gets way difficult after some time, difficult as it almost feels its unfair. But I genuinely enjoyed what I played.
Seems fun enough. Setting is neat though doesn't seem super important. Combat system feels a bit more like a fighting game than I was expecting overall it's fun but not super amazing. You have decent amount of options for what stats and abilities to upgrade and get to decide for yourself what upgrades are good. While you can configure some of the keyboard controls there are several fixed keybinds that you'll need to...
This game is NOT a metroidvania, regardless of what the tags say. Ezra's Trial is a 2.5D action linear roguelite, were every level is a maze with a defined path to the end. You are encouraged to explore to find chest that contain items you can swap with your loadout (one primary weapon, two secondary skills, and a buff grid), and encouraged to kill enemies for crystal drops (spendable XP) and keys for doors (leading...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Tower Hunter: Erza's Trial scores 27/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/844850/tower-hunter-erza-s-trialReviews 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 Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.