Bellwright
Skip · RPG · 2024 · Early Access
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 47, under the fair line, at $29.99.
- Length
- 71h
- Value
- $0.42/hr
- Reviews
- 80% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 20% ($23.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 34% ($19.79)
- Last discount ended
- 21 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8GB / AMD Radeon RX 580 8GB / Intel ARC A580 8GB, 24 GB of storage. Windows only.
Establish and expand your own settlements, liberate the land and assist its villagers, and recruit others to your cause while learning more about a life you had to leave behind. Command your forces, prove your valor through combat, and cement yourself as the hero of your people.
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 $19.79, set in December 2025. It has been discounted 18 times in the 2 years tracked here, typically at 20 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
Value puts it in the top 22 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 76 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Tinkerlands ($12.99, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats Sengoku Dynasty ($29.99, scores 39).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 21 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 31 percent of the 1,856 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 71 hours. Doing everything runs 161, 2.3 times as long.
The drop-off
89% start to <1% 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
2,072 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 13:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Bellwright is one of those games that somehow turns "let's just play for an hour" into "why is it suddenly 2 AM and why am I managing a medieval logistics empire?" It's genuinely a lot of fun, especially in multiplayer. Building up together, exploring, fighting, and slowly turning your little settlement into an actual functioning community is incredibly satisfying. That said, it also works surprisingly well as a...
It still needs some polish, and I'd like to see stone structures (maybe some light castle/siege elements?) in the game. As it stands, I think it's a good example of the genre and I look forward to further development.
To be clear, I love the game except the village quests. However, I recently purchased a new computer and now the game crashes on startup. I've tried all the fixes I can find on Steam and the rest of the internet with no luck. This is the only game I own that I can't play now. It's a shame.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Bellwright scores 47/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 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/1812450/bellwrightReviews 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 19, price as of Oct 1.
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