Dwarf Journey

Dwarf Journey

Worth it · Roguelike · 2021

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $9.99.

Length
5.1h 6.4h to 100%
Value
$1.96/hr
Reviews
93% of 377 positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
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

Raising the score
Reviews93% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 90% after the small-sample adjustment
Holding it back
Reach10K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$1.96/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 322 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

About the game

Dwarf Journey is an action roguelite platformer with randomly generated levels. Defeat enemies, level up, assemble your rune build and collect minerals to forge better equipment on an epic journey in search of immortality.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Integrated Graphics Card, 297 MB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

It has been discounted 46 times in the 6 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 60 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

On value it sits in the top 21 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 61 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 83 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Neon Abyss ($4.99, scores 69) beats it on value, while it beats Magicite ($9.99, scores 65).

More about Dwarf Journey

Of the 322 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2021 to August 2026.

Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 5.1 hours it is short enough to finish on one.

The drop-off

94% start to 26% finish
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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Dwarf Journey scores 68/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1501410/dwarf-journey
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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 Sep 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperOrube Game Studio
PublisherOrube Game Studio
GenreRoguelike
Released2021
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements83