Trials of Fire
Fair · Roguelike · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 4.3h
- Value
- $4.65/hr
- Reviews
- 86% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 660 or AMD Radeon HD 7870 equivalent DX11 GPU, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
A Tactical, Deck-Building Roguelite. Choose 3 Heroes and adventure into a post-Cataclysmic wasteland. Engage enemies in a unique meld of card-play and tactical, positional combat. Level up and scavenge what you can to customise your decks and build a party to take on any challenge!
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
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $3.99. That was August 2025. It has been discounted 58 times in the 7 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales.
On value it sits in the top 33 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 80 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 65 percent. Among the games that feel like it, LONESTAR ($12.99, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Nowhere Prophet ($6.24, scores 26).
3 of the 689 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, 68 percent of the 215 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 4.3 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 98, 23 times as much.
At 4.3 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
62% start to 1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
7 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 14:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Very good game . This games seems to have gone under the radar slightly with only 1599 positive reviews after being out for 4 years . To me this game is up there with the best of the genre and again I am surprised at the lower number of reviews , as to me this game is a very very good game . Had me instantly hooked and the game mechanics work really really well .
⊰═🕀═⊱≼ A good, underrated card game ≽⊰═🕀═⊱ 🜂 Positive 🜄 ☉ Engaging, challenging gameplay that rewards effort and skill ... ☉ The atmosphere of a post-apocalyptic fantasy world ... ☉ An interesting mechanic involving the synthesis of three selected heroes ... ☉ I haven't encountered any bugs ... 🜁 Negative 🜃 ☽ The gameplay , despite its interesting mechanics, isn't particularly varied ... ☽ Sessions that are a little...
Just an absurd learning to try and get started and absolutely no retries on anything. It makes difficult to get better because you don't know if you're losing due to strategy, build or RNG. I was trying to get my footing cause there's some good ideas here but then in the second lore quest, you can just run into the unbeatable end boss (unless you find the mcguffin first). Then you just lose and have to start over...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Trials of Fire scores 64/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1038370/trials-of-fireReviews 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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