The Bloodline
Skip · RPG · 2023 · Early Access
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 39, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Reviews
- 83% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 1080 GTX or AMD RX-6800-XT or higher, 12 GB of storage. Windows only.
The Bloodline is a sandbox adventure RPG that lets you play your way. Reforge bonds between kingdoms, explore the wilds, craft and plan adventures and wield mighty weapons or magic as you prepare for what is to come…
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
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical RPG game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
September 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $7.99. 26 discounts in the 3 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 33 percent on value. It is pricier than 87 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 82 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Tails of Iron 2: Whiskers of Winter ($24.99, scores 42) beats it on value, while it beats Lords of the Fallen ($9.89, scores 25).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 44 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written November 2023 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,162 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 443 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 64 percent of the 630 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 17 percent of everything written about it.
Players
19 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 08:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
The Bloodline scores 39/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is estimated at 8 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1159290/the-bloodlineReviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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