Rift of the NecroDancer

Rift of the NecroDancer

Steam Deck Verified

Brace Yourself Games · Rhythm · Feb 5, 2025

Yes, worth buying.

It's at its lowest recorded price, $7.99.

94%
Very Positive
6k player reviews
High confidence
Buy it if you like
  • Story and characters: 102 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Gameplay: 75 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Audio: 42 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • No recurring complaint surfaced in 300 sampled reviews

Based on 6k 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
70% of themes are praise30% are divided0% are caveats
Story and characters
Players who bring up Story and characters mostly praise it.
The game centers around the characters of the original game being suddenly swallowed by inter-dimensional rifts and plunged from their mostly underground Fantasy world into a modern day, Americanized cityscape.
102 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Gameplay
Players who bring up Gameplay mostly praise it.
It’s a genuinely fascinating gameplay system, and very unique for a rhythm game.
75 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Audio
Players who bring up Audio mostly praise it.
It is really nice to see all of the old characters returning, now with voice acting and additional personality quirks, plus some seemingly new faces added into the colorful and diverse fray.
42 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Graphics
Players who bring up Graphics mostly praise it.
The visuals are nice!
35 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Interface
Players who bring up Interface mostly praise it.
It also has a robust settings menu in general and sports quite a few things to tailor as much to your liking as possible when it comes to motions, colors.
8 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Accessibility
Players who bring up Accessibility mostly praise it.
The game has really good accessibility features, particularly for reducing the motion of monsters and backgrounds, as well as reducing other VFX and giving you optional “Early” and “Late” feedback for hits (I highly recommend you turn this on).
7 of 300 sampled reviews raised it

+1 more the community rallied around

Theme by theme

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

LovedMixedComplained about
Players love7 themes
Story and characters102 reviews
Gameplay75 reviews
Audio42 reviews
Graphics35 reviews
Interface8 reviews
Accessibility7 reviews
Controls7 reviews
Divided opinion% still recommend
Difficulty90 reviews
86%
Monetization22 reviews
82%
Performance6 reviews
100%
Players complain% still recommend

No recurring complaints surfaced in this sample.

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. 2 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.

Lowest ever recorded

Currently $7.99 (−60%). That's the lowest price we've ever recorded.

4 points recordedtoday · $7.99

The data behind the verdict

For the players who want the receipts.

Player review score
94%
Very Positive
Playing right now
Achievements
35
total to unlock
Rarest-achievement stats coming soon
Average playtime
Not tracked yet

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

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