Death's Door

Death's Door

Worth it · RPG · 2021

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $19.99, a BANGER if it drops to $10.19.

Length
9.2h
Value
$2.17/hr
Reviews
93% positive
It needs 49% off ($10.19) to be a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
9.2h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
15.9h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$2.17
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$19.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
93%
22,187 reviews, as of Sep 18
Metacritic
85
critic score
Players
750K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2021

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce MX 150 ( 2048 MB); Radeon R7 260X (2048 MB), 5 GB of storage. Windows only.

Reaping souls of the dead and punching a clock might get monotonous but it's honest work for a Crow. The job gets lively when your assigned soul is stolen and you must track down a desperate thief to a realm untouched by death - where creatures grow far past their expiry.
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Raising the score
Reviews93% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Engagement33% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Value$2.17/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
Length9.2 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach750K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
Refunds11 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

The value story

It has never been cheaper than $3.99. That was September 2025. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 45 in the 5 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. It becomes a BANGER at $10.19, a level the record has reached 36 times.

Value puts it in the top 4 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 88 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Another Crab's Treasure ($29.99, scores 68) and Blue Fire ($19.99, scores 49).

The press gave it 85; the people who bought it give it 93 percent. An 8-point gap in the buyer's favour.

Steam's global achievement data puts 33 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 11 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2024 to September 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,162 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,353 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 65 percent of the 1,028 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.

It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 9.2 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.

The drop-off

42% start to 33% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

Players

134 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 20:46 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

PROS + Beautiful visuals and strong atmosphere. + Excellent soundtrack. + Charming characters and genuinely fun dialogue. + Interesting themes surrounding life and death. + Fluid-looking combat and enjoyable boss encounters. + Well-polished overall presentation. CONS - Exploration can feel unrewarding. - Lack of a map makes backtracking tedious. - Some puzzles and abilities feel too simplistic. - Combat can feel...
AxellotlRecommendedafter 22h9 found this helpfulRead on Steam

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

Cite this score

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Death's Door scores 73/100 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/894020/death-s-door
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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 18, price as of Oct 1.

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Critics vs players+8
Critics
85
Players
93
Critics and players agree on this one.
Metacritic critics · 22,187 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperAcid Nerve
PublisherDevolver Digital
GenreRPG
Released2021
Achievements24