Prodeus
Fair · Shooter · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $24.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 7.1h
- Value
- $3.52/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVidia GTX 580 or AMD HD 7870, 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Prodeus is a first-person shooter of old, re-imagined using modern rendering techniques and technology. Experience the quality you’d expect from a modern AAA game, designed with retro aesthetics and gameplay that invoke the tech-imposed limits of older hardware.
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
September 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $12.49. 26 discounts in the 6 years on record. They run about 40 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 31 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 83 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 87 percent. Among the games that feel like it, CULTIC ($9.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Forgive Me Father ($19.99, scores 49).
Critics scored it 84. Players sit 8 points higher at 92 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
21 of the 700 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 90 percent of the 1,443 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 26 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 7.1 hours; clearing it takes 16, which is 2.3 times the campaign.
The drop-off
73% start to 2% 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
18 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 07:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Bloody brilliant game! I can't rate it high enough. Usually play on PC 3080 Ti with 120fps at 4k max detail, but also runs great on Steam Deck with medium graphics (still looks great!)
The game both surprises you and disappoints. At first it starts slowly and you think "ah just another boring shooter where you fight monsters, find keys, unlock the doors". then you go through portal on the map and it surprises you with level and mechanics variety a bit. You're like "hmm... that's interesting". You go through portals a few more times, boom bam tadam, it's done. The game ends. Wait, what? Is that it...
I played this when it first came out, and enjoyed the time I spent playing it. I got involved in the community through map creation and that is where I had the unfortunate meeting with one of the 2 devs working on this game. To say they are arrogant is an understatement, one proceeding to bolster about working as a level designer for Black ops, and calling the other a golden goose. 3 years and the DLC has had no...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Prodeus scores 58/100 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/964800/prodeusReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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