Dragonkin: The Banished
Skip · Action · 2026
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 37, under the fair line, at $24.99.
- Length
- 24.2h 88h to 100%
- Value
- $1.03/hr
- Reviews
- 74% of 2,752 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
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
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About the game
The draconic threat is once again upon us. Legendary heroes rise up to face the legions from the depths. Tame your wyrmlings, create unique power builds with the Ancestral Grid, expand your city and destroy the Dragons!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 ou ATI Radeon RX 470 (4Go VRAM), 42 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
14 discounts in the 2 years on record, a median of 20 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 31 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, The Slormancer ($19.99, scores 49) beats it on value, while it beats Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem ($19.99, scores 2).
More about Dragonkin: The Banished
Steam's global achievement data puts 27 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. 41 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2025 to October 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,362 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 255 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 7 of the 41 refunded reviewers were past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 46 percent of the 351 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 24.2 hours. Doing everything runs 88, 3.6 times as long.
The drop-off
68% start to 27% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
What players say
I'll go straight for the head: This is one of the most underrated and most fun games I experienced in a while. Everything about it is surprisingly good and as such, I can calmly recommend it to everyone and anyone that likes aRPG genre(even to some newcomers). It's also very fairly priced and lacks any and every "attention jailer"(seasons, battlepasses etc). Finally, you can play it perfectly fine in either single...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I wont lie, I have some complaints about the game. 91 hours in, no guide or anything. I just went in headfirst like I did with POE1. Did not discover the ancestral grid mechanics early. Just went with what I got so I managed to try a lot of skills for archer at least. Now the experience, The mana consumption is horrendous until I got energy +6 on talent and the energy increase in ancestor tribute lvl20. That only...
The game has some fun elements. The combat is fun. The interface is very good. The main thing that needs to be changed is better loot. Even at the highest levels the loot is not good. Way too much common junk. If I am going to grind I want to get something that improves my character. That almost never happens.
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Cite this score
Dragonkin: The Banished scores 37/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1863430/dragonkin-the-banishedReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.