Tainted Grail: Conquest

Tainted Grail: Conquest

Worth it · Roguelike · 2021

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $19.99.

Length
15.4h
Value
$1.30/hr
Reviews
90% positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
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Length
15.4h
typical playtime (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
50.7h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$1.30
price ÷ typical playtime
Price
$19.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
90%
8,373 reviews, as of Sep 26
Metacritic
82
critic score
Players
350K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2021

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GTX 750 2GB / equivalent Radeon, 8 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.

A unique, infinitely replayable, story-driven hybrid between a deck-building Roguelike and an RPG game. Explore the ever-changing maps, fight with deadly enemies, and learn what happened to the cursed island of Avalon.
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Raising the score
Reviews90% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Holding it back
Reach350K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$1.30/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
Length15 hours
Typical playtime on HowLongToBeat. Endless games score on players, so hours stay out of it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds16 of 800 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

The lowest price on record is $3.99, set in May 2025. 53 discounts in the 6 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.

On value it sits in the top 21 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 79 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 77 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Black Book ($24.99, scores 77) beats it on value, while it beats Knock on the Coffin Lid ($24.99, scores 58).

Critics scored it 82. Players sit 8 points higher at 90 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.

This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 16 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written September 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 62 percent of the 592 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.

HowLongToBeat players log 15.4 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 51, 3.3 times as much.

It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.

The drop-off

78% start to 7% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

26 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 03:45 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

An good deck-building strategy game that keeps its runs relatively short and accessible. The bigest stregth it that each character offers a genuinely different way to approach combat, which gives plenty of variety despite its relatively simple structure. 100% steam achievements Time : 28.8H Completion Difficulty : 4/10 Playthroughs : 10 Missables : None Notable requirements : Reach level 20 with all nine classes and...
chimeriqueRecommendedafter 29hAug 2026Read on Steam
One of the best games ever, truly love it! Awesome music, great game mechanics, so many characters to play with. You can spend a looot of hours here. Respect to the game devs and everyone that has worked on this game!
GruRecommendedafter 6.2hAug 2026Read on Steam
It's a no from me. There are some fun elements but whole game lacks polish. There is some potential but unfortunately game definitely needed more time in the oven.
RAmieLNot recommendedafter 49hAug 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

Cite this score

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Tainted Grail: Conquest scores 72/100 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/1199030/tainted-grail-conquest
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Reviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.

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Critics vs players+8
Critics
82
Players
90
Critics and players agree on this one.
Metacritic critics · 8,373 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperQuestline
PublisherAwaken Realms
GenreRoguelike
Released2021
Achievements40