Conquest of Elysium 5

Conquest of Elysium 5

Worth it · Roguelike · 2021

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $29.99.

Length
22.7h
Value
$1.32/hr
Reviews
90% positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
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Length
22.7h
typical playtime (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$1.32
price ÷ typical playtime
Price
$29.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
90%
1,997 reviews, as of Sep 26
Players
350K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2021

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, OpenGL, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

Conquest of Elysium 5 is a quick turn based fantasy strategy game with a touch of rogue-like. The game is full of depth, details and monsters. There are also a huge number of factions, each with its own unique gameplay and magic rituals.
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Raising the score
Reviews90% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Holding it back
Reach350K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$1.32/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
Length23 hours
Typical playtime on HowLongToBeat. Endless games score on players, so hours stay out of it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds11 of 487 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

It has never been cheaper than $14.99. That was December 2022. Its cuts run 35 percent off as a rule. There have been 37 in the 5 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart.

Value puts it in the top 21 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 77 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Legend Creatures(传奇生物) ($4.99, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Age of Wonders 4 ($24.99, scores 58).

Of the 487 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 11 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 69 percent of the 127 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.

Players

284 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 00:51 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

Mechanically deep, approachably fast. It may not be balanced, it may not be pretty, but it's always interesting.
EricRecommendedafter 93h5 found this helpfulRead on Steam
Game doesn't have a tutorial, but I was able to figure it out from youtube videos.
jessisgamingRecommendedafter 21hSep 2026Read on Steam
"A meteor has struck a spider thicket, leaving only a smokey crater" Ok cool. "A few turns later" "A meteor has struck a spider thicket, leaving only a smokey crater" God? 10/10 would "The ant queen has opened the gate to inferno" again. This is unironically one of my all time favorite games, I love it, the mods are amazing and the mod makers are receptive and excited to improve. The community is just an absolute...
ModeRecommendedafter 444hSep 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

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Conquest of Elysium 5 scores 72/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1606340/conquest-of-elysium-5
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Details

DeveloperIllwinter Game Design
PublisherIllwinter Game Design
GenreRoguelike
Released2021