Melvor Idle
Worth it · RPG · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 50% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$9.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$4.9950% offWorth it
- Cost per hourS
- under $0.01/hr
- ReviewsA
- 90% of 16,332
- Genre rank
- Top 2% RPG
Why
Recent reviews trending down: 81% over the last 30 days against 90% all-time.
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 1394.7h
- To 100%
- 1669.8h 1.2x the story
- Achievements
- 86
Price and sales
- Sales
- 32 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $3.99 April 2025
- Sale every
- 55d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 3,354 now
- Recent reviews
- 81% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 38% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 94% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
98% start to 2% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 32 times in the 6 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 62 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Soda Dungeon 2 (free, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats Mr.Mine (free, scores 77).
More about Melvor Idle
Players rate it 90 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 81 percent. Something recent has soured the room. Of the 799 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 15 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2024 to November 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 60 percent of the 657 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $3.99 (60% off). Predictions like this were right 87% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
I bought this game and accidentally became the middle manager of a medieval psychopath whose sole purpose in life is to turn the entire planet into crafting materials. My guy has chopped down 80,000 trees, mined half the Earth's crust, and caught enough fish to trigger three separate investigations by the United Nations. He has never slept, never complained, and has the emotional range of a wet sock. I have never...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Its an okay game that might be worth putting a few hours into... like... maybe just a couple... of hours...
I've sunk hundreds of hours into this game and really enjoyed it. Shame that today I booted it up and apparently it completely deleted my save with no possibility of recovery because I didn't want to use their cloud feature. Why would you ever allow this to happen in your game? Completely unacceptable. I will never be playing this game again.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Inspired by RuneScape, Melvor Idle takes the core of what makes an adventure game so addictive and strips it down to its purest form! This is a feature-rich, idle/incremental game combining a distinctly familiar feel with a fresh gameplay experience. Maxing 20+ skills has never been more zen.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, Intel Integrated Graphics, 205 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Melvor Idle scores 82/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1267910/melvor-idleReviews 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 Oct 16, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.