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Deathbulge: Battle of the Bands
The party-based RPG where you kick down doors and fight with music as a 3-piece band of idiots.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-02 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-14.
What reviewers agree on
68 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“Just buy the game. Seriously. Even if you're a rare RPG player (like me), you will still enjoy it so, so much! You can see all the other comments which explain why it's amazing, but perhaps more importantly, it was made…”
“Pretty fun RPG, with a unique combat system where you put buffs and debuffs on a 4 slot bar that also acts as the turn order. The game has plenty of humor and a unique art style that fits pretty well, i enjoyed my time…”
53 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“Just buy the game. Seriously. Even if you're a rare RPG player (like me), you will still enjoy it so, so much! You can see all the other comments which explain why it's amazing, but perhaps more importantly, it was made…”
“An absolutely brilliant game made with so much love. The story and characters are really fun engaging and the overall writing is top-tier. The music is, of course, great, with some catchy tracks and some really cool…”
26 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“I try to live by one of my favorite quotes from the anime HunterxHunter: [b]"You should enjoy the little detours to the fullest. Because that's where you'll find the things more important than what you want".[/b]…”
“[I]Criminally[/I] overlooked, one of the best RPGs I've played in a while. Funny, enjoyable and has an awesome presentation!”
“An absolutely brilliant game made with so much love. The story and characters are really fun engaging and the overall writing is top-tier. The music is, of course, great, with some catchy tracks and some really cool…”
26 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“I try to live by one of my favorite quotes from the anime HunterxHunter: [b]"You should enjoy the little detours to the fullest. Because that's where you'll find the things more important than what you want".[/b]…”
“An absolutely brilliant game made with so much love. The story and characters are really fun engaging and the overall writing is top-tier. The music is, of course, great, with some catchy tracks and some really cool…”
“This game is a pure gem how isn't there more people on it ?? Everything is successfully done in this game; the gameplay is fluent, fights are rewarding, rich and easy to understand, music is great, characters are most…”
12 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“Over 20 hours into the game, half of it played offline on my android handheld INCREDIBLE game that feels exactly like those old games where you played it to have fun Very engaging, the music is just ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ wonderful…”
“This silly Willy game was super fun I found it by chance when I checked the party based rpg tag and I bought because it looked cool and badass silly skeleton And ngl it was the best thing I could do the game was a pure…”
“It's a nice, whacky game with great humor and cool characters! (Even for me, who isn't deeply involved in any music scene) I like the combat system and character building is fun! Switching characters after attacking is…”
4 of the 103 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“An absolutely brilliant game made with so much love. The story and characters are really fun engaging and the overall writing is top-tier. The music is, of course, great, with some catchy tracks and some really cool…”
“I highly recommend this if you love metal, turn based combat and the art style. Travelling can feel a tad padded, but the world is full of quality content throughout its roughly 15 hour runtime.”
“VERY good looking game. Great fighting system, the characters are quite fun. The only downside would be the level design, the labyrinth with enemies are a bit too monotonous, and the quests that require moving around…”
4 of the 103 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“It's a nice, whacky game with great humor and cool characters! (Even for me, who isn't deeply involved in any music scene) I like the combat system and character building is fun! Switching characters after attacking is…”
“It can be pretty funny, and quirky, brimming with personality, but it gets stale too fast and drags on way too long with the same mechanics. Gameplay became a chore I had to do between the fun beats and jokes, and…”
3 of the 103 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“WARNING: THIS GAME CONTAINS: - Absolutely killer banger shredder headbanger distorter tuner busker mixer goth well-toned show-off avant-garde soundtrack - An actual sense of humor - Frenetic, engaging and unique combat…”
Counted across 103 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 98.8% positive rating · as of 2026-05-14
“This game is awesome. I've never seen this type of battle mechanism in any other game, the story is silly good, and the characters are enjoyably stupid.”
— a player, Steam review · 15 hrs played“[h1] Simply one of the best RPGs you'll ever play [/h1] That's it. This is a superb RPG made by a small team of passionate, likely-demented, incredibly funny human beings. *A wholly unique battle system built around music and controlling the "tempo" of battle and which only gets…”
— a player, Steam review · 26 hrs played“247 games. Two hundred and forty seven games. That is the total size of my steam library at the time of writing this review. I first played this game two years ago, without having ever heard of the original Deathbulge webcomic, and I was absolutely blown away. I won't mince…”
— a player, Steam review · 36 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-05.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
v2.0.1 Bugfix Patch Notes
Fixed a very rare bug where the game would softlock if encountering an enemy on the exact same frame Ian's shockwave "stunned" status wears off on that enemy on the field. Fixed a bug where enemy perf
v2.0.0 HAS ARRIVED
It's a big day for Deathbulge today! To celebrate the MULTI-CONSOLE RELEASE of Deathbulge: Battle of the Bands, we've thrown in some free extras while we were at it, extras that we are also sharing wi
MAJOR Content Update Announcement v2.0.0 coming out JUNE 30TH!!
We are thrilled to officially announce v2.0.0 will release on JUNE 30TH! ːianjoyːːianjoyːːianjoyːWe're making the game easier....AND HARDER. ːkeefmadːːkeefmadːːkeefmadːHere is what you can expect to s
10,000 players!
We realised yesterday that we hit the 10,000 unique players milestone, so I spent this morning drawing a little something for it. Thank you so much for playing!! I know we didn't make it easy to find
v1.2.3 Patch Notes
We've received some reports of the collection achievements not popping for some people, so as a workaround the only thing this patch changes is talking to any Saeva in the game and saving your game at
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-14.
| Genres | Indie, RPG |
| Player tags | RPG · 2D · JRPG · Female Protagonist · Story Rich · Funny · Turn-Based Combat · Hand-drawn · Music · Comedy · Party-Based RPG · Cartoon (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 24 |
| Official site | http://www.deathbulge.com/game |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7 SP1+ Processor: SSE2 instruction set support Memory: 1 GB RAM Graphics: 1GB DirectX: Version 10 Storage: 4 GB available space