Deck of Ashes

Deck of Ashes

Skip · Roguelike · 2020

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 28, under the fair line, at $19.99.

Reviews
72% positive
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Price
$19.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
72%
1,068 reviews, as of Sep 26
Players
75K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2020
Length + $/hr
No data
no length in our data yet

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 512 Mb capable of OpenGL 2.0+ support, 5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

Deck of Ashes is an adventure game with tactical card combat. One character at a time, lead the cast of antiheroes on a quest for redemption. Explore the cursed fantasy world and hunt down powerful cards. Forge a unique Battle Deck, and crush your foes! Can you rid the world of the Ash Curse?
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Holding it back
Reviews72% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach75K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds2 of 387 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

It has never been cheaper than $3.99. That was December 2023. It has been discounted 59 times in the 7 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales.

It is pricier than 80 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 79 percent. On the same math Roguebook ($24.99, scores 60) and Overdungeon ($14.99, scores 51) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.

2 of the 387 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 58 percent of the 223 reviews written there were positive, against 72 percent overall, and those are 26 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

53% start to 3% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

A game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Deck of Ashes scores 28/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1016730/deck-of-ashes
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.

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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperAYGames
PublisherESDigital Games
GenreRoguelike
Released2020
Achievements110