Goblin Stone
Skip · Roguelike · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 0, under the fair line, at $24.99.
- Length
- 23.5h
- Value
- $1.06/hr
- Reviews
- 54% of 778 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 207 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
About the game
Goblins have been hunted to extinction by cruel adventurers. Embark on a heartwarming adventure to rebuild their lair and help them thrive in this award-winning turn-based RPG where every decision counts.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Open GL 3.2+ Compliant, 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
It has been discounted 18 times in the 3 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 35 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 30 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 97 percent. On the same math Cult of the Lamb ($12.49, scores 84) and Warriors of the Nile ($12.99, scores 49) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about Goblin Stone
The press liked it more than its buyers did, 72 against 54 percent.
13 of the 650 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2024 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,174 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 70 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 48 percent of the 114 reviews written there were positive, against 54 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
91% start to <1% finishA 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
What players say
Fantastic Idea Great Art Interesting Novel Mechanics Amazing Voicework Cute Story Tons Of Potential However Tons of bugs, way too grindy, mechanics that don't make sense, restrictions for certain things for no reason, and overall it just feels unfinished. I really want to love this game, and have put a decent amount of hours into it, but there are just so many better choices for whatever it is you're looking for out...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I can't recommend this game. The game attempts to couch the action as a narrative, but by about five hours in I was ready to strangle the narrate for commenting yet again on how good a survivors my dead little goblins are. The art style is cutesy and fun. This will be a draw to some, but it quickly annoyed me as the internal logic of the world is totally incoherent. If you like this sort of game, go get darkest...
The game is very good, way longer than I first expected. I give it a solid 7.5/10 TL;DR The game is Good. Great story, decent combat. However, it is slightly too grindy for the average person and the post-game content is just you playing the whole 100 hour game again with a slight difficulty tweak. Pros: - The story is decent and is fully narrated. The narrator deserves an award ngl - The game is really long for how...
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Cite this score
Goblin Stone scores 0/100 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/1521970/goblin-stoneReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.