Urtuk: The Desolation
Worth it · RPG · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $13.99.
- Length
- 25.5h
- Value
- $0.55/hr
- Reviews
- 88% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, OpenGL 2.0 compatible video card with 256 MB, 604 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Urtuk is an open world, tactical turn-based RPG in a low-fantasy setting. Guide your band of adventurers through the ruins of an ancient world. Recruit new followers, loot the corpses of your fallen foes, and do your best to survive in this harsh and unforgiving realm.
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
September 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $1.67. Its cuts run 70 percent off as a rule. There have been 45 in the 7 years tracked, about 8 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 3 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 70 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 91 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Shogun Showdown ($7.49, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats Those Who Rule ($17.99, scores 68).
This site sampled 580 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 11 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 63 percent of the 216 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
82% 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
21 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 23:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Its pretty cool. There is adequate change and new events, new abilities and opurtunities. A good strategy that is well planned makes a big difference in this game. Its really makes you plan and strategize. You can kind of choose how much of a challenge/reward/risk you want.
Great turn-based strategy game with tons of room for creative usage of game mechanics.
Real fun yeeting 99 percent of enemies into death pits. Really needs a cloud save system though, i dont want to unlock everything all over again.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Urtuk: The Desolation scores 75/100 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/1181830/urtuk-the-desolationReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.
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