Anvil Saga
Skip · RPG · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 21, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 7.9h 26.1h to 100%
- Value
- $2.53/hr
- Reviews
- 70% of 1,837 positive
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
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About the game
Anvil Saga is a management sim with RPG elements where you take control of a blacksmith shop amidst the Hundred Years' War. Each decision you make impacts the story and gameplay.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Memory size larger than 2 GB and DirectX 10/OpenGL 3.0 support, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 40 discounts in the 4 years tracked, the median cut is 25 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 71 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Travellers Rest ($13.49, scores 72) and Siege Survival: Gloria Victis ($24.99, scores 55) both outscore it.
More about Anvil Saga
Steam's global achievement data puts about 5 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 7.9-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 732 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 9 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2022 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 64 percent of the 194 reviews written there were positive, against 70 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 7.9 hours. Doing everything runs 26, 3.3 times as long.
The drop-off
61% start to 5% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
What players say
Do not buy this game unless you are ok with bugs that will never be fixed. Even in the 2hours I played before getting a refund, I ran into 5-6 bugs. From menus getting stuck on the screen, to items I should have in my inventory just not being there, and the tutorial prompts simply not activating. From what I see in the games discussion boards, updates and fixes from the developer stopped about 2 years ago. So, any...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
This game has so many bugs, one of which I found is game breaking. I am locked in Autumn.
Okey game with short main storyline. Quickly become boring. After early access not much added in story.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Anvil Saga scores 21/100 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/1587540/anvil-sagaReviews 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 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.