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The Eternal Castle [REMASTERED]
Fair · Action · 2019
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 2.7h 6.3h to 100%
- Value
- $5.55/hr
- Reviews
- 87% of 767 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.71 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 6 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
About the game
The Eternal Castle [REMASTERED] is a remake of the original "ETERNAL CASTLE" from 1987, with additional game mechanics, sophisticated sound design, polished 2-bit CGA animated graphics, and modernized game design.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, CGA Graphics card or higher, 276 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
Across all 37 discounts in the 8 years tracked, the median cut is 40 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 10 percent on value. It is pricier than 85 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, That Which Gave Chase ($4.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Hyper Light Breaker ($29.99, scores 0).
More about The Eternal Castle [REMASTERED]
The press gave it 73; the people who bought it give it 87 percent. A 14-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Of the 357 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to July 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 73 percent of the 218 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 32 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 2.7 hours; clearing it takes 6, which is 2.3 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 2.7 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
93% 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
What players say
This game is an utter eye sore, and it's beautiful. Designed to feel like a remaster of a (corrupted) CGA game from the 80s, it brings back to life a retro experience that is really unique, not just because the limited graphics feel novel to modern eyes, but also because it creates a strange dichotomy where you both see the game world, and don't quite see the game world. Everything is recognizable, and at the same...
2 more reviews
What a blast! Incredible jump in the past. If you love Another World/Flashback go for it immediately! Beautiful art style and sound design, fantastic OST. The main game it's hard but fair, the Lost Tales mode (after end game) it's very hard, but still very good and add another few hours to the gameplay. Overall, a little masterpiece!
Get over learning the controls and movement and you will be rewarded with an extremely fun challenge. The visuals are beautiful yet abrasive, the combat is punishing but rewarding, the story is simple enough despite folding in on itself, and it's not even a real remake! I highly recommend The Eternal Castle, even with all of its subversions.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
The Eternal Castle [REMASTERED] scores 54/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/963450/the-eternal-castle-remasteredReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.