Great Houses of Calderia
Skip · RPG · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 7, under the fair line, at $24.99.
- Length
- 14.8h
- Value
- $1.69/hr
- Reviews
- 61% of 447 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
Great Houses of Calderia is a Feudal Grand Strategy game focusing on family dynamics & stories. Use your family strengths to compete against rivals to rise in the ranks of Calderia - produce, trade, scheme, bribe, and battle to build your legacy of power!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 with 2GB of VRAM or equivalent, 20 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
32 discounts in the 3 years on record, a median of 60 percent off across all of them, roughly 4 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 92 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Crusader Kings III ($49.99, scores 76) and SAELIG ($14.99, scores 48) both outscore it.
More about Great Houses of Calderia
Of the 409 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 11 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2023 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,866 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 132 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 1 of the 11 refunded reviewers was past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review.
The drop-off
55% 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
- Players online
- 7 when we last checked, on Sep 27, 20:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
An abandoned ship, though have many potential. Many mechanics are not full implemented/designed in a good way and the AI is terrible (for e.g, spamming war halfway across the world). Lacking sufficient tooltips and documents explaining the game making it worse. I rarely write review, but this is the one time where I feel hooked to the to the game at first and later regretted buying it:)
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Would I recommend this game? Sure, if you can get it at a deep deep discount. Otherwise, stay away; it just has too many flaws to be considered a good game. It mostly resembles an event generator with random events occurring constantly. Said events are then resolved through RNG based on some arbitrary stat. Even given all that, however, I could work with it to some degree, but the totally bizarre design decisions...
It is very similiar to CK3 and other Grand Strategy Games you have family(dynasty), city and you have goals for the winning. But this project is unfinished, last update was made in 2024 and there is some optimazition problem when you goes to late game. Still it can be playable and if you want to play basic Grand Strategy you can try it.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Great Houses of Calderia scores 7/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 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/1812910/great-houses-of-calderiaReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.