Despot's Game: Dystopian Battle Simulator
Fair · Roguelike · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Reviews
- 84% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 670 / Radeon HD 7970, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Guide puny humans through Despot's Game - a rogue-like tactics army battler. Equip your team and sacrifice them through procedural dungeons as you fight enemies, and other players!
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
It has never been cheaper than $4.99. That was June 2024. 50 discounts in the 5 years on record. They run about 60 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 40 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 78 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Legend Creatures(传奇生物) ($4.99, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Spin Hero ($3.99, scores 28).
This site sampled 762 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 17 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written October 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 68 percent of the 465 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
The drop-off
97% 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
33 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 01:04 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Despot's Game: Dystopian Battle Simulator scores 59/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1227280/despot-s-game-dystopian-battle-simulatorReviews 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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