GemCraft - Frostborn Wrath
Worth it · Action · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $12.99.
- Length
- 52.4h
- Value
- $0.25/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 297 MB of storage. Windows only.
The epic tower defense dark fantasy journey continues! Create powerful gems with various abilities and take on the battle against an endlessly flowing army of monsters, and face the growing darkness as you fight your way back towards the Spiritforge.
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 $2.59. That was March 2026. 57 discounts in the 7 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 79 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, GemCraft - Chasing Shadows ($9.99, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats Revenge of the Titans ($14.99, scores 39).
Steam's global achievement data puts 41 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. This site sampled 462 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 68 percent of the 154 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 52.4 hours. Doing everything runs 118, 2.3 times as long.
The drop-off
92% start to 41% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
What players say
Love this game. I'm actually writing this review because I'm not sure how else to ask the developers a question about a part of the story that doesn't make sense to me. In both Chasing Shadows and Frostborn Wrath, there's mention that there are decades between each release of the Forgotten. This is interesting, because you'd expect a near end of the world scenario, especially a repeated one, to be remembered for...
The breakout Flash tower defense games may be Bloons TD and Kingdom Rush, but I think the greats are Desktop TD, Pokémon TD, and the GemCraft series, the latest entry being GemCraft - Frostborn Wrath. Like any TD, a variety of monsters march along a path toward your wizarding orb, and you build towers to attack these monsters and protect your orb. GemCraft introduces several twists on top of this formula. A tower's...
I have loved this game series even when it was a free flash game. Here they tweaked a few things, for the better! Back then I spent probably over 500 hours on this game and chasing shadows. And since they released it on steam, I figured I'd support them and spend another 500+ hours! ^_^
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Cite this score
GemCraft - Frostborn Wrath scores 80/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1106530/gemcraft-frostborn-wrathReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length 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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