Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon

Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon

Fair · Shooter · 2025

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $44.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
27.6h
Value
$1.63/hr
Reviews
88% positive
It needs 17% off ($37.21) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.

Buy now or wait

The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.

Discounted in each of its last 5 seasonal sales on record.

Autumn Sale cooldown
None on record
Typical seasonal cut
30% ($31.49)
Deepest seasonal cut
40% ($26.99)
Last discount ended
60 days ago

Watch it for a saleSources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
27.6h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
71.1h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$1.63
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$44.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
88%
35,729 reviews, as of Sep 26
Metacritic
80
critic score
Players
350K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2025

Minimum on the Steam store: 12 GB of memory, GTX 1060 6GB or AMD equivalent, 31 GB of storage. Windows only.

Step into a dark reimagination of Arthurian legends in this first person, open world RPG. Explore a world stuck in everlasting autumn, witness falling legends and make meaningful choices woven into a complex, branching storyline.
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Raising the score
MonetizationNone
No in-game purchases. Paid DLC exists and is not docked
Holding it back
Value$1.63/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews88% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Length28 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach350K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
Refunds26 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

The value story

February 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $17.99. Its cuts run 20 percent off as a rule. There have been 27 in the 4 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 9 weeks ago.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 21 percent on value. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 74 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion® Game of the Year Edition (2009) ($14.99, scores 94) beats it on value, while it beats GreedFall: The Dying World ($49.99, scores 3).

The press gave it 80; the people who bought it give it 88 percent. An 8-point gap in the buyer's favour.

26 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2026 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 59 percent of the 1,510 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.

27.6 hours to finish it, 71 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.6 times the campaign.

It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.

The drop-off

80% start to 2% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

What players say

Decent but flawed, the game's lore and main story are really good, but the game suffers from poor balancing and the choices in most quests seem rather weak, most quests you are forced to help while there is little choice to do stuff through skill checks, there are but way less than expected. Performance is ok, game should run way better for how it looks, some of the areas are beautiful and the art direction is...
Bobby KenobiRecommendedafter 27h10 found this helpfulRead on Steam
Good game. Similar to Skyrim, but much darker storywise. Devs released a free demo and multiple DLC. You can tell that they actually care about their customers and their game. You guys kick ass.
♿sallad♿Recommendedafter 18hSep 2026Read on Steam
actually, IMHO, this is a good successor to skyrim. While the graphics arent the best, the story and worldbuilding and attention to detail is very immersive.
nightfall0603Recommendedafter 9.6hSep 2026Read on Steam

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

Cite this score

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Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon scores 65/100 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/1466060/tainted-grail-the-fall-of-avalon
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Reviews 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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Critics vs players+8
Critics
80
Players
88
Critics and players agree on this one.
Metacritic critics · 35,729 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperQuestline
PublisherAwaken Realms
GenreShooter
Released2025
Achievements65