Wartales
Worth it · RPG · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $34.99.
- Length
- 41.9h
- Value
- $0.84/hr
- Reviews
- 86% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 60% over the last 30 days against 86% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVidia GTX 1050 / AMD RX550, 30 GB of storage. Windows only.
Wartales is an open world RPG in which you lead a group of mercenaries in their search for wealth across a massive medieval universe. Explore the world, recruit companions, collect bounties and unravel the secrets of the tombs of the ancients!
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
June 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $9.79. 42 discounts in the 5 years on record. They run about 45 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 2 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 4 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 87 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition ($39.99, scores 81) beats it on value, while it beats For The King II ($8.49, scores 29).
Players rate it 86 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 60 percent. Something recent has soured the room. 9 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 51 percent of the 1,158 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
41.9 hours to finish it, 160 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.8 times the campaign.
3 years after release it still had 1.6K people in it at once.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
The drop-off
83% start to <1% 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
1,632 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
I bought the game originally in early access cause it had similarities to Mount and Blade Bannerlord that I was playing at the time. Of course the game wasn't finished yet and despite that I was enjoying playing it. Ultimately decided to wait and let the devs cook for a bit and finish the game. Come back now a couple years later and game is complete but if I want to play the game with all the features that they have...
TBH used to be pretty cool in early access, with a quite magical atmosphere, but it quickly became a tedious slop with many issues, among which my disfavor: 45-60 min giga-boring random encounter fights even with a medium-sized party, an absurd amount of bugs and useless DLCs, and dungeons that are some of the most atrocious and annoying experiences ever seen in decades of RPGs.
I liked what I played before the DLC Apocalypse, but I just can't bring myself to dump +$100 on this game so I can get the complete experience, Maybe we'll see a $10 complete edition one day? I'm patient.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Wartales scores 68/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1527950/wartalesThe 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 Sep 15, price as of Sep 23.
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