The DioField Chronicle
Skip · RPG · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 0, under the fair line, at $59.99.
- Length
- 25.1h 32.3h to 100%
- Value
- $2.39/hr
- Reviews
- 51% of 803 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
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
A gritty and immersive story brought to life with the latest technology. Introducing "Real Time Tactical Battle" (RTTB), a new, deeply strategic, real-time battle system. The beginnings of a new Strategy RPG, crafted by a skilled and experienced development team.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, AMD Radeon RX 460 / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950, 30 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 27 discounts in the 4 years tracked, the median cut is 60 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 98 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. TRIANGLE STRATEGY ($59.99, scores 47) and Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga ($6.99, scores 91) both outscore it.
More about The DioField Chronicle
4 of the 645 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2022 to August 2026.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
77% start to 12% rarestNo 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
- Players online
- 3 when we last checked, on Sep 27, 17:53 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I just cleared the game, and have to agree with the more negative reviews that are already here. The plot is a mess. Most of the characters are either unbearable or quickly forgotten. The biggest flaw is that Real Time Strategy RPG, isn't a thing. The game harshly punishes you for getting hit by enemies charged attacks. So you're constantly freezing game time to navigate menus to either interrupt the attack, step a...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Huge disappointment. Been playing off and on since release. Never have I actually wanted to finish this game.
I would like to firstly say that this game was pretty much my first time playing an RTS game. My only real point of comparison is what little Starcraft videos I've seen many years ago, so practically nothing. As a new player to the genre, I honestly had fun with The DioField Chronicle. The Steam info blurb calls it Real Time Tactical Battle, but it's very much a "player-sided RTS with pause SRPG". To describe this...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The DioField Chronicle scores 0/100 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/1399080/the-diofield-chronicleReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.