Astatos
Skip · Strategy · 2021 · Early Access
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 43, under the fair line, at $14.99. Fair at $8.02, lower than any Steam price we have tracked since Dec 2021 (lowest $11.24, Dec 2024).
- Length
- 4h
- Value
- $3.75/hr
- Reviews
- 82% of 311 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $8.02 or less.
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
- Steam lists in-app purchases but we have no detail on them. Small caution applied.
About the game
Leave your influence in your wake as you bring together a broken land in a card-battling adventure filled with gods, heroes, and the instability of yourself and those around you. Play the story, or go online with fellow Crown Mages for tabletop card action.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 1.5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
It has been discounted 25 times in the 5 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 20 percent, about 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 25 percent on value. It is pricier than 81 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 79 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Minion Masters (free, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats Cross Blitz ($22.99, scores 39).
More about Astatos
This site sampled 296 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written December 2021 to August 2026.
The drop-off
47% start to 2% 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
- 6 when we last checked, on Sep 30, 15:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
It's got HOT FURRY MEN. The card game is okay, I'm not the biggest fan of card games in general but it's fine. The visual novel story part is worth it alone, especially on sale. And the art is really, really good too. I'm frankly okay paying for this to see the art, it's beautiful and really nice. And the furry men are hot too, did I mention that?
2 more reviews
The writing is quite good and shows a great deal of thought on the decisions you are asked to make. The two gods with you are about order/chaos but there is nuance to their stances that can result in some surprising takes. I'm quite looking forward to where things go from here.
Now that chapter 2 has finished, I can say that this my comfort late night decompression reading/game. The music puts me right into that mindset (it's that good!) and my current personal favourite is, currently unreleased, the trial theme in chapter 2, it's just so cozy! Visually, those artists ate! The backgrounds and character sprites are immaculate (seriously those background artists deserve more credit the...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Astatos scores 43/100 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/1430970/astatosReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.