The Last Spell
Worth it · Roguelike · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $24.99.
- Length
- 40.7h
- Value
- $0.61/hr
- Reviews
- 91% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650, 2 GB or AMD Radeon HD 7770, 2 GB, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.
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
March 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $2.49. It has been discounted 43 times in the 5 years tracked here, typically at 40 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 5 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 13 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 84 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Battle for Wesnoth (free, scores 86) beats it on value, while it beats Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark ($29.99, scores 75).
The press gave it 82; the people who bought it give it 91 percent. A 9-point gap in the buyer's favour.
13 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2023 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 64 percent of the 487 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 40.7 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 93, 2.3 times as much.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
66% 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
424 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
It had it's fun moments but the game itself is a slog to get through in all ways. The waves are highly repetitve and simple while the boss fights introduce brand new mechanics you might not be prepared for. I've luckily never lost a boss fight and got S ranks on most of my days playing the standard game but I'm sure that replaying a whole city would be maddening. It is fun to start mowing down zombies and for...
Normally I would love this kind of game, the tactics combat, the fun synergistic builds, etc However The Last Spell has a tremendous pacing problem Your party resets at the end of every stage The stages last way too long (each one is essentially a rogue run) The game heavily focuses the war of attrition kinda of gameplay (conserve resources for the last round) It doesn't have that Slay the Spire feeling of making...
This game feels like what other turn/tile based combat campaigns should strive to be. Players of XCOM or similar titles will look at the choices made here and go 'oh, it IS possible to make these mechanics feel good'. In particular I want give some specific praise. Campaign length: levels range from 5 - 20ish hours depending on the campaign and your own play speed. In my mind, this is where a roguelike of this type...
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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The Last Spell scores 78/100 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/1105670/the-last-spellThe 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 18, price as of Sep 24.
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