Pawnbarian
Fair · Roguelike · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 6.5h 42.3h to 100%
- Value
- $1.54/hr
- Reviews
- 89% of 902 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- 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
Pawnbarian is a quick-playing, turn-based puzzle roguelike. Play cards to move your hero like a chess piece, and conquer challenging dungeons full of cunning monsters!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 205 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 45 times in the 5 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 24 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 75 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, LONESTAR ($12.99, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Trials of Fire ($19.99, scores 64).
More about Pawnbarian
Of the 338 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 87 percent of the 132 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 29 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 6.5 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 42, 6.5 times as much.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 6.5 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
18% 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
What players say
130 hours in and I've finished all chains on 2 of the 6 characters, so looking like 500 hours to complete this game in its entirety. This is a sacrifice I make willingly. Do with this review as you will.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Pawnbarian scores 66/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1142080/pawnbarianReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.