Noita
BANGER · Roguelike · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $19.99.
- Length
- 26.2h
- Value
- $0.76/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 512MB VRAM, OpenGL 3.0 support, 1.6 GB of storage. Windows only.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $7.99, set in April 2024. It has been discounted 51 times in the 7 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 83 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. The nearest things to it, Never Split the Party (free, scores 44) and Magicite ($9.99, scores 65), are both worse buys on this math.
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 21 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 79 percent of the 4,524 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 26.2 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 154, 5.9 times as much.
6 years after release it still had 2.0K people in it at once.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
The drop-off
73% start to <1% 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
2,019 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Noita is an amazing game marred with some bad design decisions. How you manage these decisions will determine whether you quit early, keep going only to get frustrated well into it, or experience it fully. Judging from global achievement completion, a vast majority of players will fall within the first two categories. One of the most obvious of these decisions is the cryptic nature of the game. It won't take long to...
A fun little physics-based platformer with customizable spells for different effects. Discover knowledge locked away by ignorance. Locked? But it was always there... The gods didn't make it, it just exists. Do gods exist? I've gained so much knowledge; the only god I see here is me. There's a whole world out here, and it belongs to me. Ok so it turns out there are infinite worlds in every direction. I was arrogant...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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Noita scores 89/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/881100/noitaThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 12, price as of Sep 24.
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