Oaken
Skip · Roguelike · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 32, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 5.5h 70h to 100%
- Value
- $3.63/hr
- Reviews
- 74% of 394 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
Oaken, a turn-based tactical roguelike set in the spirit inhabited world. Explore the Great Oak, gather allies and trinkets, learn to use the positioning for your advantage, choose how to upgrade your cards. Wake the spirits and save the Oak!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Geforce GTS 450, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
41 discounts in the 4 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 81 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 73 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Roguebook ($1.74, scores 60) beats it on value, while it beats Legends of Kingdom Rush ($14.99, scores 16).
More about Oaken
This site sampled 238 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2022 to July 2026.
HowLongToBeat players log 5.5 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 70, 13 times as much.
At 5.5 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
57% start to 14% finishA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
I don't understand why this game has such bad reviews. Some reviews are so weird, comparing the game with Slay The Spire...? This makes no sense whatsoever. Both games have the concept of "cards" but they have nothing else in common. Your "deck" in this game is very small, and you move units on a hex grid. This game is much more similar to a tactics game like Into The Breach. Anyways, the graphical fidelity of this...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Oaken scores 32/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1348690/oakenReviews 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 Oct 2, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.