ORX

ORX

Skip · Roguelike · 2022 · Early Access

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 20, under the fair line, at $19.99.

Length
7h
Value
$2.86/hr
Reviews
69% of 684 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

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
Reviews69% 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
Early accessUnfinished
Still in development, a small confidence discount until 1.0
For context
Value$2.86/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds2 of 500 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

About the game

A new take on tower-defence and deckbuilding roguelike genres. ORX is like playing Carcassonne with your table on fire. Build your perfect deck, use powerful artefacts, master 3 unique factions. Prove that you are the King of your castle!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVidia GTX 670 or AMD Radeon HD 6570, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

32 discounts in the 4 years on record, a median of 30 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 85 percent. Overdungeon ($7.49, scores 51) outscores it, and so does Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers ($14.99, scores 55). Both sit among its closest neighbours.

More about ORX

This site sampled 500 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 66 percent of the 130 reviews written there were positive, against 69 percent overall, and those are 21 percent of everything written about it.

Players

Players online
1 when we last checked, on Oct 16, 21:51 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

I played this several years ago and thought it was good then, you had access to decent cards and were offered good upgrade selections. I stopped playing though because the game felt too easy and too simple, like it was missing something. Now, having tried to play it again recently I can see things have changed significantly for the worse. The starting deck your given is utterly terrible. The campaign explains...
nessalkdarbNot recommendedafter 15hJul 2026early accessRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 2 not recommended
this game is a mess from the original draft some mechanics became bloated the is like the developers changed ideas mid yourney and it really annoy me...
No NameNot recommendedafter 19hJul 2026early accessRead on Steam
Took a 2 year break, just played now on 6/14/26 and idk what they did but the game kind of sucks now. You have absolutely no starting cards at all.
Major Von StroheimNot recommendedafter 30hJun 2026early accessRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
ORX scores 20/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1071140/orx
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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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

Developerjohnbell
PublisherCRITICAL REFLEX
GenreRoguelike
Released2022
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements2