Dwerve
Skip · RPG · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 35, under the fair line, at $11.99.
- Length
- 11.2h
- Value
- $1.07/hr
- Reviews
- 74% of 550 positive
Full price
Today
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- 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
About the game
An epic action-adventure with tower defense combat! Dungeon crawl through a ruined kingdom, fending off hordes with turrets and traps! Punch them into pits! Pull them into spinblades! Zap and burn them!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 1 GB, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
27 discounts in the 4 years on record, a median of 25 percent off across all of them, roughly 8 weeks apart. Today's $11.99 at 40 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 40 percent on value. It is pricier than 87 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Children of Morta ($21.99, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Hammerwatch II ($4.99, scores 10).
More about Dwerve
Steam's global achievement data puts about 4 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On an 11.2-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 4 of the 426 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2022 to June 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 67 percent of the 121 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 28 percent of everything written about it.
At 11.2 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
67% start to 4% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
What players say
It doesn't feel like a classical tower defense. That can either be good or bad depending on what you're looking for. Where a classical tower defense is like "Plan carefully. Take your time." This one is more a "Yo! Enemies will spawn here and here. You have five seconds to set up your defense!". So the main challenge comes from quickly adjusting to the situations you're thrown into. I'd say it's really quite fun...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Dwerve is a really interesting mix of tower defense and a dungeon crawler/adventure game. The game has a few bugs and weird difficult spikes, but overall It is a really fun experience.
The combat system is cool, but it's bogged down by the core gameplay loop, which entails running around the map looking for keys, chests, levers, and other various other meaningless tasks designed to funnel you from one combat encounter to the next. There are some minor UI problems, and the sounds, especially the dialogue noises, can be a bit loud and repetitive at times. The controls feel a bit stiff, and the unit...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Cite this score
Dwerve scores 35/100 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/1132760/dwerveReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.