Blackthorn Arena
Skip · RPG · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 15, under the fair line, at $24.99.
- Reviews
- 69% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 2 GB, GeForce GTX 660/Radeon HD 7870, 25 GB of storage. Windows only.
Blackthorn Arena is a strategy/management sim with a real-time/turn based combat system, set in a world of mythical monsters and classic fantasy races. Play as the master of Blackthorn Arena, train your slaves into gladiators, forge them into your champions, and send them to fight for your glory!
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. The score is docked for the missing length.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $4.99, set in August 2024. It has been discounted 37 times in the 7 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 9 weeks between sales.
It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 75 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Age of Reforging: The Freelands ($29.99, scores 23) beats it on value, while it beats Blackthorn Arena: Reforged ($9.99, scores 14).
4 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 42 percent of the 332 reviews written there were positive, against 69 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
91% start to 2% 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
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Blackthorn Arena scores 15/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is not in our data, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1194930/blackthorn-arenaReviews set the ceiling. With no length in our data, value sits at a neutral middle whatever the price, and the BANG Score is 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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