Alina of the Arena
Worth it · Roguelike · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $7.49, at or past its typical seasonal cut of 45%. The Autumn Sale runs to Oct 8.
- Length
- 8.8h
- Value
- $0.85/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 50% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 45% ($8.24)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 50% ($7.49)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory. Runs on Windows, macOS.
A roguelike deckbuilding tactics game that combines elements from 'Slay the Spire' and 'Into the Breach'. Play as a gladiator to survive. With roguelike deckbuilding and hex-based tactics, no longer bound by simple attack and defense. Make use of dodges and knockbacks to stay alive!
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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $5.99, set in May 2026. Its cuts run 35 percent off as a rule. There have been 31 in the 5 years tracked, about 8 weeks apart. Today's $7.49 at 50 percent off still sits 25 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
On value it sits in the top 16 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 82 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Shogun Showdown ($7.49, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats Roguebook ($24.99, scores 60).
This site sampled 613 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written January 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 85 percent of the 220 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 8.8 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 70, 8.0 times as much.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 8.8 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
71% start to 2% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
9 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 17:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Great game to get on sale. Combat is easy but engaging, with a good variety of weapons, cards, and enemies. The soundtrack fits the setting quite well and the story, which is almost nonexistent, is still decent if you get the true end. Good game to spend some hours on.
TLDR: Recommended for value. If you like card battlers, it's fun enough. I paid USD $7.45 on steam sale. Good value at this price. It's a low res budget knockoff of Fights in Tight spaces. Movement is paramount, you start with very little, good luck finding all the movement cards you need and in the end, you might not get the RNG anyway and lose. It's also a single board type, there's no RNG to the arena. There's a...
really fun games, no run is gonna be the exact same and I really enjoyed the different options, when it comes to class and how there seems to be just enough cards to build and play how you want, but keep in mind it is difficult and 1 tip for beginners I have is you don't always need to collect every single card after a fight focus on your build for the run.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Alina of the Arena scores 76/100 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/1668690/alina-of-the-arenaReviews 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 Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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