The Unliving
Skip · Roguelike · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 10, under the fair line, at $16.99.
- Length
- 4.8h
- Value
- $3.54/hr
- Reviews
- 62% of 903 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each 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
Raise the dead as a fearsome Necromancer in the dark world of The Unliving! Lead your undead armies into the endless fight in this rogue-lite action RPG game. Burn cities to ash with devastating magic spells, slay epic bosses and turn your enemies into morbid servants.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450, 1 GB or AMD Radeon HD 5750, 1 GB, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 33 discounts in the 4 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 72 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 94 percent. On the same math BELOW ($24.99, scores 24) and Dungeons of Edera ($14.99, scores 19) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about The Unliving
16 of the 586 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2022 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,174 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 45 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 4 of the 16 refunded reviewers were past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 42 percent of the 222 reviews written there were positive, against 62 percent overall, and those are 29 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
99% start to 3% finishA 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
What players say
In gameplay The Necromancer wields his scythe with his left hand, and uses magic with his empowered right hand. However, in the character art that is constantly displayed during dialogue, The Necromancer wields his scythe with his right hand, and uses magic with his left. Literally unplayable.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
The AI and pathfinding in this game is terrible, with your swarms of minions being stuck in place because a few of them got stuck on terrain and are blocking the entire army to walking to their destination, or the units get stuck in place, refuse to move while your main character is stuck between them in collision mechanic and cant run away from threats because your own units are blocking your escape path...
So I'm playing this likely after whatever updates the game has had to go through in regards to things like skeleton type grouping across stages as prior to playing this, I've seen one vid going over how the fighters, rangers, giants and unholies apparently didn't carry over the stats built for them from the previous biomes you move to from the isles to the swamp for instance. If that were the case back then, the...
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Cite this score
The Unliving scores 10/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/986040/the-unlivingReviews 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 Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.