Lost Ark

Lost Ark

Skip · RPG · 2022

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

The reviews do not carry it. What it costs you is time.

PriceS
Free to play
Reviews▼
70% of 203,159
Genre rank
Top 70% RPG

Holding it back: AI content, Reviews

Recent reviews trending down: 37% over the last 30 days against 70% all-time.

Time and effort

Main story
56.6h
To 100%
690.8h 12.2x the story
Achievements
156

Players and genre

Online
4,548 now
Recent reviews
37% 30 days
Better reviewed
32% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

86% start to <1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

It is less well reviewed than 68 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Age of Conan: Unchained (free, scores 26) beats it on value, while it beats Vindictus (free, scores 19).

It is still busy. 4.5K players were online when we last checked, on Nov 1, 08:45 UTC, across 35 days of weekly checks.

More about Lost Ark

Players rate it 70 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 37 percent. Something recent has soured the room. Inside the two-hour refund window, 30 percent of the 558 reviews written there were positive, against 70 percent overall, and those are 1 percent of everything written about it.

Finishing takes 56.6 hours; clearing it takes 691, which is 12 times the campaign.

203,159 reviews stand behind that percentage.

Buy now or wait

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Cost per hourFree
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reach75M+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). A free game has no price to weigh, so this is its value read
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
AI contentDisclosed
The developer disclosed AI-generated content on Steam, so the score takes a heavy dock
Recent reviews37% (30 days)
Trending down vs lifetime, a small dip
For context
RefundsFree
A free game cannot be refunded, so the label never applies

About the game

Embark on an odyssey for the Lost Ark in a vast, vibrant world: explore new lands, seek out lost treasures, and test yourself in thrilling action combat in this action-packed free-to-play RPG.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, Nvidia Geforce GTX 1050 Ti / AMD Radeon RX 560, 110 GB of storage. Windows only.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Lost Ark scores 21/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The developer disclosed AI-generated content on Steam, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1599340/lost-ark
Embed the live badge

Reviews 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 Nov 3. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Details

DeveloperSmilegate RPG
PublisherAmazon Game Studios
GenreRPG
Released2022
Players75.0Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements156