Solasta: Crown of the Magister
Worth it · RPG · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $29.99.
- Length
- 39.5h
- Value
- $0.76/hr
- Reviews
- 87% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Radeon R9 285 / GeForce GTX 950, 30 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Roll for initiative, take attacks of opportunity, manage player location and the verticality of the battle field in this Turn-Based Tactical RPG based on the SRD 5.1 Ruleset. In Solasta, you make the choices, dice decide your destiny.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
September 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $7.49. Its cuts run 65 percent off as a rule. There have been 56 in the 6 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 2 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 2 percent on value. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Baldur's Gate 3 ($59.99, scores 93) and Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition ($39.99, scores 81) both outscore it.
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 12 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2024 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 55 percent of the 698 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
83% 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
396 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Accessible RPG that does a great job with DnD5E rule set. Not a shiny and polished as BG3, but still a fun game for RPG fans.
Whether I recommend this game depends on how patient of a person you are. On the positive side, this is a really well made RPG with interesting classes, abilities, and good combat mechanics. There is a story to keep you going. Things are explained with tooltips, not in great detail, but well enough if you are familiar with D&D. Mechanically it reminds me of a less sophisticated version of Pathfinder Kingmaker...
Totally recommended - I played this game for 660 hrs and didn't even notice. It's both challenging and immersive. I was happy to pre-purchase Solasta 2 because of the positive experience I had with this one.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Solasta: Crown of the Magister scores 75/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1096530/solasta-crown-of-the-magisterThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 15, price as of Sep 24.
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