Those Who Rule
Worth it · RPG · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $17.99.
- Length
- 27h
- Value
- $0.67/hr
- Reviews
- 90% 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 6 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 40% ($10.79)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 50% ($8.99)
- Last discount ended
- 11 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, OpenGL 2.0 compatible video card with 2 GB VRAM, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
Join three fresh recruits caught in a web of betrayal as war looms over the land. Lead your band of heroes through tactical turn-based battles, master unique abilities, and forge powerful gear to turn the tide of battle. Will you unravel the conspiracy driving the conflict—or be consumed by it?
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
March 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $8.99. 19 discounts in the 2 years on record. They run about 35 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 5 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 81 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark ($29.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats Lost Eidolons ($34.99, scores 22).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 11 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 27-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 4 of the 410 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2025 to August 2026.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
The drop-off
69% start to 11% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
19 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 03:51 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Great indie tactics game, Brutal mode was brutal...but also well thought out and a lot of fun. Looking forward to TWR 2!
Those Who Rule is deceptively fun. At first, it seems like a pretty simple tactical RPG. Move your units, attack enemies, use abilities, capture territory, repeat. The systems are easy to pick up, and the early battles are genuinely relaxing in that "I understand what I'm doing" kind of way. You get popups and hand-holding. Permadeath is on hold even if you selected it for the first chapters. Then the game decides...
Great game for tactical RPG fans, especially fire emblem fans. Thematically it feels just like Path of Radiance, but the gameplay changes are enough to make it feel fresh.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Those Who Rule scores 68/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) 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/1822060/those-who-ruleReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.
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