Anode Heart
Worth it · RPG · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $5.39.
- Length
- 32h
- Value
- $0.17/hr
- Reviews
- 91% of 468 positive
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Buy now or wait
It is 70% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- 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
A semi-open world, monster tamer RPG, set in a digital, futuristic environment, with fast-paced combat, a card minigame and focus on exploration.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Integrated graphics, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
Across all 30 discounts in the 3 years tracked, the median cut is 55 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today's $5.39 at 70 percent off still sits 20 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Value puts it in the top 3 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 81 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Cassette Beasts ($19.99, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats Monster Crown ($9.99, scores 2).
More about Anode Heart
Steam's global achievement data puts under 1 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 32-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 339 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written November 2023 to August 2026.
The drop-off
94% start to <1% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 8 when we last checked, on Oct 15, 16:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
The game has a bunch of flaws, which is a bad sign considering I only played for about 3 hours. Biggest one is probably how poorly information is presented. Most systems aren't explained fully, and you have to hunt for a NPC to get what little explanation there is. In combat, the log goes by super fast and cannot be scrolled from the main screen, so you have to go to the info screen (where the log is also present...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
This game has a lot of cool ideas, but it struggles to present many of them in an approachable way. In particular, stat optimization is a big, tedious mess. You can increase a monster's stats in too many different ways, all poorly explained in terms of exact mechanics, and as a result every play I make feels suboptimal to me. I tried to play this game three times, and every time I lost interest the moment I got to a...
glad we are in the era of "people who grew up playing Digimon World making their own." tons of visual detail references that make me smile. also the game is good and exp share is on for everyone so you can actually level your tama in a reasonable way.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Anode Heart scores 78/100 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/1592750/anode-heartReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.