Dungeon Village
Worth it · RPG · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $8.99.
- Length
- 9.1h 12.9h to 100%
- Value
- $0.99/hr
- Reviews
- 89% of 887 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in 7 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
Build a heroic hamlet that warriors and merchants can call home!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 246 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 35 discounts in the 5 years tracked, the median cut is 62 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 5 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 91 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Kingdom: Classic (free, scores 81) beats it on value, while it beats Gnomoria ($14.99, scores 30).
More about Dungeon Village
This site sampled 397 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 3 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2022 to August 2026.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 9.1 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
70% start to 25% 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
What players say
The original pixel-art addiction that perfectly turns the "hero's journey" into a cozy management sim. Before there was the massive scale of the sequel, there was this-the original Dungeon Village. It is the ultimate "no-brainer" game that perfectly captures the Kairosoft magic. The premise is brilliantly simple: you aren't the hero going into the dark forest to fight monsters; you're the person selling that hero a...
2 more reviews
Simple RPG village management. Dungeon Village is a breath of fresh air for the classic Kairosoft formula. The fantasy theme is fun, exciting, and much more enjoyable than the modern day settings found in some of their other games, in my opinion. You start with a barren village located near a monster infested forest. Your goal is to build facilities that support adventurers who come to your village to hunt monsters...
This is the game that got me addicted to Kairosoft's wide catalog of games. I first purchased it on Switch and played it so many times. When it came to Steam (and with achievements added later), I was super excited and quickly beat this version. These games are primarily made for cell phones, but I do not play mobile games often. Strongly recommend using a controller, but the key binds are on Kairosoft's website...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Cite this score
Dungeon Village scores 71/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1859360/dungeon-villageReviews 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.