Apsulov: End of Gods
Fair · Action · 2019
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 5.1h
- Value
- $3.92/hr
- Reviews
- 87% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GTX760, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
In this future viking horror you awake in a sanctuary of steel and concrete, built to research and exploit the worlds of Yggdrasil, and to house an artifact, buried in the earth aeons ago.First person with a futuristic Norse mythology story. Horror adventure in the realms of Yggdrasil.
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
The value story
October 2022 is where it bottomed out, at $1.99. 75 discounts in the 7 years on record. They run about 80 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 12 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Vertigo Remastered ($19.99, scores 61) beats it on value, while it beats Unforgiving - A Northern Hymn ($14.99, scores 49).
2 of the 458 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 65 percent of the 187 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 5.1 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
56% start to 3% 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
What players say
Humanity tried to unravel the mysteries of Yggdrasil through science, only for the gods to answer that hubris with horror. Its fusion of Norse mythology and science fiction creates a striking world, though the journey through it can feel somewhat conventional and occasionally exhausting.
6.2 For me this was a very solid 'decent' game, it's not really bad in any particular areas personally but it also never really excels in any way either. What is there is a nice futuristic setting with a pretty interesting viking mythology to fuel the narrative. The environments world isn't explored really outside of the facility and a select few other realms though which could have been interesting to see as it is...
TL/DR: This is essentially Doom 3 (2004) without the action. It's also quite short and I finished it in 5.7 hours. Story: 7/10 Environment: 7.5/10 Gameplay: 5/10 World interaction: 1/10 Exploration: 2/10 Player choice: 1/10 Apsulov has a good but somewhat predictable story set in an interesting and well crafted facility. Unfortunately, there is very little to explore or interact with. It's pretty, but almost...
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Cite this score
Apsulov: End of Gods scores 51/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/960980/apsulov-end-of-godsReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.
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