Across the Obelisk

Across the Obelisk

Fair · Roguelike · 2022

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Fair 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

$19.99Fair

Typical seasonal cut

$9.9950% off

Cost per hour
$0.73/hr
Reviews▼
80% of 13,160
Genre rank
Top 39% Roguelike

Holding it back: Reviews

Watch this gameOne alert at $9.99 or less.

Time and effort

Typical playtime
27.2h
To 100%
140.1h 5.2x the story
Achievements
148

Price and sales

Sales
42 on record
Typical cut
35% off
Steam low
$9.99 March 2024
Sale every
49d last October 2026
Lowest now $19.39 at Fanaticalall-time low $8.07 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
419 now
Recent reviews
76% 30 days
Cheaper than
9% of its genre
Better reviewed
51% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

82% start to 3% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

A 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

The value story

The value story

42 discounts in the 6 years on record, a median of 35 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 6 days ago.

Against its own genre its score lands in the top 39 percent. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Knock on the Coffin Lid ($24.99, scores 58) beats it on value, while it beats Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers ($4.79, scores 54).

More about Across the Obelisk

8 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2024 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 28 percent of the 302 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.

HowLongToBeat players log 27.2 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 140, 5.2 times as much.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Last discount ended 6 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

Raising the score
Reach1.5M+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
MonetizationNone
No in-game purchases. Paid DLC exists and is not docked
Holding it back
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Refunds8 of 800 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

What players say

A pretty fun game for solo or with friends. that is well worth the base game's price and even the DLCs too IF you and/or your friends are still hooked after beating the game once or twice. It's by no means perfect, I for one hate how punishing failing an RNG event is, but it's a great game concept that I hope gets expanded on if there ever is a sequel in the future. You know.. when they grow tired of adding more...
Ryu BatesonRecommendedafter 376h3 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
amazing game with an even better community where ur able to learn a lot. the devs are also very active there to help with problems
ThiemenlaarsRecommendedafter 544h2 found this helpfulRead on Steam
Great game. 800+ hours. Greedy DLC. A lot of my friends are on console, and they have given up on updating consoles as of October 2025, version 1.6. There is also no way to move you save data and progress from console to PC, so many of them have given up on playing with PC friends. It's the usual paradox game: great game, greedy and garbage business tactics.
BorkNot recommendedafter 627hOct 2026Read on Steam

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

About the game

Set forth in a co-op roguelite deckbuilder where every choice matters! Craft decks of breathtaking power. Journey alone or with up to three friends. Plot your party’s path to glory and face powerful enemies in deep tactical combat on your quest to save the kingdom of Senenthia in Across the Obelisk!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Across the Obelisk scores 56/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1385380/across-the-obelisk
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Reviews 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 Nov 8, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Details

DeveloperDreamsite Games
PublisherParadox Interactive
GenreRoguelike
Released2022
Players1.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements148