Banners of Ruin
Skip · Roguelike · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 49, under the fair line, at $3.99.
- Length
- 9.2h
- Value
- $0.43/hr
- Reviews
- 79% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 2Gb VRAM, OpenGL 3.0 support, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
Assemble your party. Answer the call. Win the war. Build a deck and fight a series of turn-based combats with up to 6 party characters through the city of Dawn's Point. Each character can unlock a set of unique cards and abilities that can augment your deck in powerful, exciting ways.
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
The lowest price on record is $3.99, set in April 2026. Its cuts run 65 percent off as a rule. There have been 58 in the 6 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 80 percent of its genre. On the same math LONESTAR ($12.99, scores 73) and Roguebook ($24.99, scores 60) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
The press gave it 71; the people who bought it give it 79 percent. An 8-point gap in the buyer's favour.
9 of the 779 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 37 percent of the 168 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 9.2 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 19, 2.1 times as much.
The drop-off
72% start to 16% 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
22 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 15:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Not bad as such, but the very poor game balance and unclear UI really overshadow the otherwise quite interesting deckbuilding mechanics.
Thematically the game easily beats any other roguelike deckbuilder out there. The visuals, world building, and music really hit the spot. Sadly the gameplay itself falls short of an expected standard; progression is really slow, combat while introducing interesting concepts lacks variety and depth, and overall the whole "game" part of the game feels very unfinished. It's the kind of game I really want to like and I...
I rarely post Negative Reviews, so this game really stands out for me in a bad way despite wanting to like it. There are more than a few issues with this game that really hold it back and some that simply can't be ignored. TLDR; - - There are bugs, - The UI is confusing, - It has imbalanced gameplay mechanics - Difficulty issues - Far too random to have any consistent runs - At times just not fun I found myself...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Banners of Ruin scores 49/100 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/1075740/banners-of-ruinReviews 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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