Garshasp: The Monster Slayer
Skip · Action · 2011
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 1, under the fair line, at $4.99.
- Length
- 3.3h 7.7h to 100%
- Value
- $1.51/hr
- Reviews
- 47% of 396 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 2 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
As the legendary Persian hero, fight your way in a journey to revenge and reclaim the legendary mace of his ancestors stolen by the Deevs. Purchase before 5/16 and save!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 256 MB RAM, Nvidia 6600 and up, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 57 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is less well reviewed than 99 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Super Meat Boy Forever ($4.99, scores 3) beats it on value, while it beats Wizard of Legend 2 ($24.99, scores 0).
More about Garshasp: The Monster Slayer
Steam's global achievement data puts about 11 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 3.3-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Inside the two-hour refund window, 38 percent of the 107 reviews written there were positive, against 47 percent overall, and those are 44 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 3.3 hours. Doing everything runs 8, 2.3 times as long.
The drop-off
70% start to 11% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 14, 04:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Garshasp: The Monster Slayer from Dead Mage and Digital Dragon is an ambitious attempt to bring a cinematic hack-and-slash experience into the indie space, drawing heavily from established genre heavyweights while grounding itself in the less commonly explored realm of Persian mythology. Released during a time when character action games were largely dominated by major studios, it stands out as a project driven more...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
A little jank, but the gameplay and lore of the world are enough to pull it through. Not quite as deep or shiny as the God of War games that it takes some inspiration from, but it comes together really well for the work of such a small team. Narrator is also a highlight.
It's a pretty poor copy of ps2 era God of War, but that's what attracted me to it in the first place. Just shows you how impressive those games still are by today's standards in how incredibly short Garshasp falls in comparison. You get what you pay for when it comes to this one, but I will say it did not bore me through its meager runtime.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Garshasp: The Monster Slayer scores 1/100 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/99400/garshasp-the-monster-slayerReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.