Esports Godfather

Esports Godfather

Worth it · RPG · 2024

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $19.99.

Length
35h
Value
$0.57/hr
Reviews
91% positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
5% of players unlock the ending achievement on a 35-hour game.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
35h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$0.57
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$19.99
as of Sep 25
Reviews
91%
4,552 reviews, as of Sep 26
Players
350K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2024

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 256mb Video Memory, capable of OpenGL 2.0+ support, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.

E-sports Godfather is a Deck-building game simulating MOBA e-sports. You will play a role as team coach and build your team. You need to train players and make strategies in various game versions, beat other teams and finally, take the Champion of the World. Be nobody, or lead your team to dominate!
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
Value$0.57/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews91% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 90% after the small-sample adjustment
Engagement5% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
AI contentDisclosed
The developer disclosed AI-generated content on Steam, so the score takes a heavy dock
For context
Length35 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach350K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds7 of 707 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked

The value story

June 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $19.99. In 88 days of price history it has never once been discounted.

On value it sits in the top 5 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 87 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Stacklands ($7.99, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats Cardboard Town ($19.99, scores 50).

Steam's global achievement data puts about 5 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 35-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 7 of the 707 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 68 percent of the 200 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

76% start to 5% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 35-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements

What players say

I have never been into deckbuilders, and I have no interest whatsoever in MOBAs. My entire introduction to this game came from looking for an esports managment game and due to how dead the space is, I decided to give this a try and somehow it just clicked. The deckbuilding aspect is great, bans make every match feel different, and with the opponents banning your most picked/highest winrate heroes I am actually...
JetlantisRecommendedafter 80hAug 2026Read on Steam
An extremely realistic MOBA simulator. The enemy top is backdooring your base uncontested while your jungler is still doing his camps 40 minutes into the game.
tr1ckRecommendedafter 11hJul 2026Read on Steam
Esports Godfather is the kind of game you buy and expect to be fun for maybe a day or two. Turns out, this is a unique blend of different genres, and it's even fun to tackle the game on the hardest difficulty to the point where you're doing your best to break the game to win otherwise impossible matches. Overall, I've had a lot of fun playing this over the last two years.
RockspechtRecommendedafter 295hJul 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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Esports Godfather scores 70/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The developer disclosed AI-generated content on Steam, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1278540/esports-godfather
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Reviews 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 Sep 26, price as of Sep 25.

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Details

DeveloperAsteroid Game Studio
PublisherAsteroid Game Studio
GenreRPG
Released2024
Achievements107