Valor Mortis Reviews and Ratings: What the Scores Say

Aggregate scores

Valor Mortis opened to a mixed-but-positive critical reception that the aggregate numbers smooth over. Read on their own they look unremarkable; read against the spread of individual scores underneath them, they describe a game critics agreed to disagree about.

The PC and PS5 figures coming from the same game, a day after launch, are a useful reminder to check which platform an aggregate is quoting before repeating it. A single "Valor Mortis score" does not exist — the number depends on which platform's reviewer pool you are reading.

The Steam summary

On Steam the game carried 337 reviews, 286 positive and 51 negative, which Steam labels Very Positive. The English-language subset was 196 reviews, 163 positive and 33 negative, also Very Positive.

Steam's label and a critic aggregate are not comparable quantities and are usually placed side by side as if they were. One is a large, self-selected group of people who bought the game; the other is a small group of professional reviewers. A gap between them is normal and is not evidence that either is wrong.

Where critics disagree

This is the part an average hides. Across the 44 scored PC reviews Metacritic had collected at this check, scores ran from 90 down to 50 — a wider band than most aggregated games produce — and the two largest groups sit at opposite ends of the middle.

The 80 group is the largest single band in the list, and the 70s include the highest-profile outlets in it — IGN and Game Informer both sit there. The top and the bottom are both minorities — but they are large enough minorities that a reader given only "77" would not know they existed.

Why there is no score here

This page does not award Valor Mortis a rating of its own, and the reason is not modesty. A score implies a comparison against a baseline, and the only baseline this site has is the published material it cites — the store description, the developer's own statements and the press. We have not played the game. A number derived from reading about it would be a synthesis of other people's opinions dressed up as an independent verdict.

What can be done honestly is to report what each source said, attribute it, and let the disagreement stand where it exists. That is what the table above is for.

What a score cannot tell you

• Whether the problems are fixed. A review written in the first days describes the build of that moment. With no patch shipped as of October 14, 2026, the reviewed build is still the current one — but that will change, and when it does, older scores describe a version that no longer exists.
• Whether it suits you. The spread from 5 to 9 is mostly a spread of taste, not of quality. Two reviewers looking at the same combat system reached opposite conclusions about it.
• What the game is. A score cannot convey that this is a first-person soulslike — a combination few games attempt. The what kind of game page covers that in the developer's own words, which is more useful than any number for deciding whether it is for you.

If you want the platform and price context behind these scores, the release date page and the price page cover them without repeating any of the above.