Hadean Tactics

Hadean Tactics

Worth it · Roguelike · 2023

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $19.99.

Length
1.8h
Value
$11.11/hr
Reviews
89% positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
1.8h
typical playtime (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
61h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$11.11
price ÷ typical playtime
Price
$19.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
89%
1,939 reviews, as of Sep 26
Players
150K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2023

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Integrated HD Graphics 520 w/128 MB or better, 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

Hadean Tactics is a roguelike deckbuilding game fused with autobattler elements to create a unique strategy experience. Use your cards to influence the actions of your units and help your Hero defeat the Six Wings of Hell!
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
Reviews89% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Holding it back
Reach150K+ 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$11.11/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
Length1.8 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
Refunds8 of 484 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 $8.99, set in March 2026. 53 discounts in the 6 years on record. They run about 35 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 25 percent on value. It is pricier than 78 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 74 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Cat God Ranch ($5.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats Commander Quest ($6.59, scores 32).

Of the 484 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 8 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 67 percent of the 198 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.

HowLongToBeat players log 1.8 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 61, 34 times as much.

Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 1.8 hours it is short enough to finish on one.

The drop-off

77% start to 2% 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

18 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 23:49 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

I'm recommending this with some hesitation. It's really fun, and such a great concept and execution. If you like Slay the Spire, you'll probably enjoy this; I think the autobattler mechanic makes it even a little more interesting. Lots of options for coming up with fun card/ability/team combos. Unfortunately, it's just too easy to have longevity for me. Maybe it's because I've played so much Spire, but I barely lost...
moletrapRecommendedafter 92h2 found this helpfulRead on Steam
Hadean Tactics gets a limited thumbs-up from me. Here are the reasons: Pros: 1. Single-player autobattler and card game in one 2. Create your own character and deck with free card selection is fun 3. The game speed can be adjusted 4. Good game mechanics and interfaces Cons: 1. It's too easy to achieve endless combos, especially when building your own decks. This can make the game feel repetitive. 2. You can only...
erNRecommendedafter 58hAug 2026Read on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Hadean Tactics scores 69/100 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/1260590/hadean-tactics
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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperEmberfish Games
PublisherEmberfish Games
GenreRoguelike
Released2023
Achievements82