Arboria

Arboria

Skip · Roguelike · 2021

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The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 40, under the fair line, at $19.99.

Length
17.6h
Value
$1.14/hr
Reviews
77% of 782 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

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
Reviews77% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 76% after the small-sample adjustment
Reach10K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$1.14/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds4 of 417 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

Fight, die, and fight again in this dark fantasy trollz-like roguelite. As a Yotun troll warrior, descend into the ever-changing, creepy dungeons of Durnar. Use a variety of Symbiotic Weapons and Bio-Mutations to slay enemies and heal The Father Tree.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Radeon R9 280 or Nvidia GeForce GTX 660, 17 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

55 discounts in the 6 years on record, a median of 80 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

It is pricier than 85 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 62 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Jotunnslayer: Hordes of Hel ($14.99, scores 57) beats it on value, while it beats Blightbound ($19.99, scores 12).

More about Arboria

This site sampled 417 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to July 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 55 percent of the 114 reviews written there were positive, against 77 percent overall, and those are 21 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

69% start to <1% 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

I actually really like this game. the mechanics are fun, the atmosphere is great, graphics are decent especially for a essentially indie game. However, if you get on a dying streak, there is no going back. the game keeps stacking against you, basically like capitalism. very slow progress but the base play was enjoyable enough that I was willing to endure, until one mess up that sent me on a dying streak of angry...
Patience26Not recommendedafter 13hJul 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
too anal. the game boasts that we get to pick up where the last yotun die. no we dont. we start over with twigs. what just to be 3 swings and a dead enemy now turns into 15 swings but on the last high level area we died in.
purplemonsterNot recommendedafter 4.6hJun 2026Read on Steam
I'd recommend it because of the good ideas, but the downsides are the sluggish movement and the feeling that you're about to hit the enemy but a rock on the ground stops you, raising you slightly or preventing you from reaching the enemy altogether. I don't know why, but when I play it, I feel uneasy for some reason. However, the upsides are that I love the silly storyline, the voice acting, and how you choose a...
heydrRecommendedafter 1.3hJul 2026Read on Steam

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

Cite this score

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Arboria scores 40/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/924070/arboria
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Reviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+2
Critics75
Players77
Metacritic critics · 782 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperDreamplant
PublisherAll in! Games
GenreRoguelike
Released2021
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements25