Phantom Abyss
Fair · Roguelike · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 12.6h
- Value
- $1.59/hr
- Reviews
- 81% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 660 ( 2048 MB), 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
Phantom Abyss is a massive asynchronous multiplayer game that casts players into procedurally-generated temples and tasks them with retrieving the sacred relics hidden within deadly chambers.
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
January 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $9.99. It has been discounted 36 times in the 5 years tracked here, typically at 25 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 48 percent on value. It is pricier than 81 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Haste ($19.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats ALTF4 ($2.99, scores 51).
Of the 662 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 18 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2021 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 698 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 86 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 72 percent of the 377 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 19 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 12.6 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 42, 3.3 times as much.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 12.6 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
47% 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
Players
2 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 08:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
cool concept, crispy movement, great graphics, poorly balanced enemies, broken world generation. honestly it had immense potential but devs just gave up on it lol
I remember getting this game when it first came out and I am genuinely so curious what happened. You'd think a game under Devolver Digital would've gotten a lot more recognition but this game barely peaked at 1,600 players and couldn't even hit 100 past early access. The concept at first was amazing and the potential was there. The music is dynamic and catchy with the environment and action. The movement and game...
Going purely based on the game that is released right now would I recommend someone to get the game now probably not going based on that the game will a) not get any updates b) changing the game into a pseudo story mode with players unlocking content by adventure mode c) the fact that you can now buy upgrades before a run is began and temporary powers. Apart from them features the game itself is competently made the...
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Cite this score
Phantom Abyss scores 54/100 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/989440/phantom-abyssReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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