Clash: Artifacts of Chaos
Fair · Action · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $29.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 12.9h
- Value
- $2.32/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 (3 GB) / AMD Radeon R7 260X (2 GB), 12 GB of storage. Windows only.
Hunted by mercenaries of an enemy with untold power, the fighter Pseudo and the creature under his protection begin a perilous quest to the edges of strange lands.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $2.99, set in December 2025. It has been discounted 26 times in the 4 years tracked here, typically at 80 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales.
Value puts it in the top 6 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, God of War ($49.99, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats Steelrising ($49.99, scores 23).
Of the 426 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 6 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 64 percent of the 150 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 12.9 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
35% start to 3% 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
5 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 04:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I'm a fan of ACE Team and Zeno Clash I & II, and I think Clash is also a good game but a bit less interesting even though more refined in the gameplay. I like that there's no handholding, but fights are a bit repetitive, they all feel the same and I have a BIG problem with save points. In some points, in order to fight a boss, you need to save, load a new map, walk to the boss and then fight. And since some fights...
TL;DR recommend if you like experimental media, challenging games, definitely needs more love. I don't know how this game has never gotten recommended to me, never had a friend mention it, never seen discourse online (until I found this game on a whim and found out the fact that this game didn't get hardly any attention on release), because this game is impressive in many ways that I fail to see many games do. For...
Great game for what its trying to accomplish. The world's interconnectedness is the highlight of the game here. It's comparable to Dark Souls 1, although Smaller. Not to mention there's almost two entire worlds to explore here with the day and night modes. The story is good, but it's much more of a "journey" type of story than a super faceted one. We get subtle hints to some very interesting lore. Lots of the story...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Clash: Artifacts of Chaos scores 60/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1430680/clash-artifacts-of-chaosReviews 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 Oct 1.
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