Anima : The Reign of Darkness
Skip · RPG · 2021
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 25, under the fair line, at $11.99.
- Length
- 14.4h
- Value
- $0.83/hr
- Reviews
- 69% of 638 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in 2 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 378 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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About the game
Explore a dark fantasy world, descend into the darkest depths and fight hordes of demons in this fast paced Action RPG. Fully customize your character, loot hunderd of unique items and destroy the evil that is corrupting the world once again!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 512MB NVIDIA GeForce 6800 series or ATI Radeon X800 series or better, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
8 discounts in the 5 years on record, a median of 35 percent off across all of them, roughly 13 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 54 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 66 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 73 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing ($14.99, scores 60) beats it on value, while it beats Warhammer: Chaosbane ($29.99, scores 4).
More about Anima : The Reign of Darkness
This site sampled 486 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 56 percent of the 128 reviews written there were positive, against 69 percent overall, and those are 21 percent of everything written about it.
Players
- Players online
- 2 when we last checked, on Sep 27, 04:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This is a very good game on mobile. On PC it's cheezy garbage. You do okay at first. Slow and pondering, but you can manage until the end of the basement, where you fight this cheezy demon that can spin in place while you can't move and are just cut to nothing. Who's idea of good design is this? Get it on mobile. It's way, way, way better.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I played Anima for long on my phone at this point and I don't get why would you release older version for the PC. So many things were fixed in later versions for the phone.
My new favorite ARPG Game. Mix of Diablo 1&2 with PoE and all the good elements of those games with amazing graphics. Need an update on some quality of life like loot filter. Overall excellent game.
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No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Anima : The Reign of Darkness scores 25/100 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/1629200/anima-the-reign-of-darknessReviews 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.