Nidhogg
Worth it · Multiplayer · 2014
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99.
- Length
- 0.8h
- Value
- $12.49/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
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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.
Nidhogg is the epic award-winning game of fencing tug-of-war complete with flying giant worms.
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
It has never been cheaper than $1.49. That was June 2015. 99 discounts in the 13 years on record. They run about 60 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 71 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 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).
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 363 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 6 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 490 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 190 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 2,186 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.
The drop-off
66% 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
6 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
When i think of the best 1v1 multiplayer games or modes on the market, this lil gem will always make the list. I own it on 2 platforms and have spilled the guts of many friends and family. I cant recommend it enough
this game is great on the deck but every time i play and get far enough on the singleplayer cause i'm a friendless chud who doesn't know how to spell every time i get stuck moving in one direction and i press a button it doesn't work i do not know why
This game is quite literally epic town pogger pants. Very fun to coop with friends IRL (need dat double keyboard doe) Also I will slime any1 out in game.
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.
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Nidhogg scores 76/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/94400/nidhoggThe 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 16, price as of Sep 24.
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