Cultivation Tales
Skip · RPG · 2024
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $19.99.
- Reviews
- 38% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 960(4GB) or AMD Radeon R9 380 (4GB), 30 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cultivation Tales is an open world survival craft online game. You will experience collecting, crafting, hunting, fighting, building, researching, in a wild mythical world. Fight for your clan and yourself, from mortal to divinity!
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical RPG game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
- Steam lists in-app purchases but we have no detail on them. Small caution applied.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $5.99, set in June 2024. 17 discounts in the 4 years on record. They run about 70 percent off, roughly 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 8 weeks.
It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 99 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Conan Exiles Enhanced ($39.99, scores 57) and Smalland: Survive the Wilds ($34.99, scores 57) both outscore it.
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 8 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 30 percent of the 1,624 reviews written there were positive, against 38 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
Players
7 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Cultivation Tales scores 0/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). Length is estimated at 8 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1504570/cultivation-talesThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 2, price as of Sep 23.
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