Shattered Pixel Dungeon

Shattered Pixel Dungeon

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Shattered Pixel · Traditional Roguelike · Mar 23, 2022

Likely worth it. Reviews lean strongly positive.

At $9.99. It has been as low as $5.49.

95%
Overwhelmingly Positive
2k player reviews
Medium confidence
Buy it if you like
  • Gameplay: 44 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Story and characters: 21 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Difficulty: 17 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • Combat: 16 reviews raised it, mostly criticism

Based on 2k player reviews · updated 2 days ago

What players think

The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.

Why players love itThings to know
57% of themes are praise29% are divided14% are caveats
Gameplay
Players who bring up Gameplay mostly praise it.
The greatest thing about the game, as well as what it taught me to love about the genre, is that there is no meta-progression that makes your in-game characters stronger.
44 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Story and characters
Players who bring up Story and characters mostly praise it.
Those talents boos your characters performance in various ways, some give you more food to find, some give you more damage or might make it easier to tank hits.
21 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Difficulty
Players who bring up Difficulty mostly praise it.
When the game becomes too easy, there are a bunch of challenge modes you can apply to a new run, so you can customize the difficulty quite a bit in that regard.
17 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Controls
Players who bring up Controls mostly praise it.
You can easily play this either from your keyboard alone, your mouse alone, or even both at the same time ( It even has partial controller support..
9 of 300 sampled reviews raised it

Theme by theme

Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.

LovedMixedComplained about
Players love4 themes
Gameplay44 reviews
Story and characters21 reviews
Difficulty17 reviews
Controls9 reviews
Divided opinion% still recommend
Graphics15 reviews
93%
Interface8 reviews
63%
Players complain% still recommend
Combat16 reviews
75%

Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway. 4 more themes were each raised by fewer than 6 sampled reviews and are not shown.

Should you buy it now?

Crit’s read on the price, from Steam price history.

Prices have been lower

Currently $9.99. The lowest we've tracked is $5.49.

3 points recordedtoday · $9.99

The data behind the verdict

For the players who want the receipts.

Player review score
95%
Overwhelmingly Positive
Playing right now
Achievements
98
total to unlock
Rarest-achievement stats coming soon
Average playtime
Not tracked yet

We’ll surface hours-played once playtime ingestion ships.