Nidhogg
Worth it · Multiplayer · 2014
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 66% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$9.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$3.4965% off
- Cost per hour
- $12.49/hr
- ReviewsA
- 90% of 7,930
- Critics
- 81 players 9 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 3% Multiplayer
Holding it back: Reach
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.49 or less.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 0.8h
- To 100%
- 6.7h 8.4x the story
- Achievements
- 12
Price and sales
- Sales
- 101 on record
- Typical cut
- 60% off
- Steam low
- $1.49 June 2015
- Sale every
- 38d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 5 now
- Cheaper than
- 34% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 95% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
66% start to <1% rarestA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
101 discounts in the 13 years on record, a median of 60 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 3 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 66 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, TowerFall Ascension ($14.99, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats Nidhogg 2 ($14.99, scores 52).
More about Nidhogg
Critics scored it 81. Players sit 9 points higher at 90 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Of the 364 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 6 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to October 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 798 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 298 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 2,202 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 38 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 0.8 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 7, 8.4 times as much.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 0.8 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 19 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
I really like the swordplay and the mind games you can do, especially with some of the advanced tricks you can pull off. The rollback and matchmacking update makes the game actually reasonable to recommend.
2 more reviews
what? they added rollback and training mode? and better Steam support? what? awesome! sure, why not!
I play Nidhogg all the time with my friends on local multiplayer (we literally just share the keyboard on my laptop). The one-button fencing is super easy to pick up, but the mind games and timing make every single match feel incredibly intense. We always end up playing way longer than planned because the rounds are so quick (or not so quick sometimes!) and addictive. While the online multiplayer can be a bit quiet...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Nidhogg is the epic award-winning game of fencing tug-of-war complete with flying giant worms.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, DirectX 8-compatible graphics card with at least 32MB of video memory, 205 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Cite this score
Nidhogg scores 76/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/94400/nidhoggReviews 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 Oct 13, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.