Cardfight!! Vanguard Dear Days
Skip · Strategy · 2022
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 44, under the fair line, at $69.99.
- Length
- 24.6h
- Value
- $2.85/hr
- Reviews
- 76% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in 2 of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 50% ($34.99)
- Last discount ended
- 205 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660, 16 GB of storage. Windows only.
The ultimate digital Vanguard experience that includes an original story set in the world of overDress! Compete with players worldwide with "Ranked Fight," play solo casually with "CPU Fight," and enjoy the game and experience the world of Vanguard at your own pace via many other fight modes.
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
February 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $5.59. Its cuts run 10 percent off as a rule. There have been 11 in the 4 years tracked, about 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 29 weeks ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 24 percent on value. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 62 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Minion Masters (free, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Warhammer The Horus Heresy: Legions (scores 8).
Of the 580 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2022 to August 2026.
Finishing takes 24.6 hours; clearing it takes 163, which is 6.6 times the campaign.
The drop-off
94% start to 2% 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
12 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 02:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Possibly the worst card game AI I've ever played. AI was very much visibly given boosts to trigger rates at all times. Even worse when you add D-Skill into the calculation. Honestly, such a shame, because the Vanguard itself is fun, but the horrible hardcode of the AI is beyond playable. How do you code this and then think "Hmm, yeah, this is definitely the best type of accuracy and fun!" for a card game and slaps...
I beat my brother and uninstalled. This game was NOT worth so much money. I got this game for like $20 i think
Actually missed playing Vanguard before Bushiroad made separate new rules apart from the Stride era and Gear Chronicles, which made my friends give up on this game because of how much they invested in their stride-focused decks CPU is challenging enough to learn the new rules, so good to learn the new mechanics or try out new deck archetypes you can't build in real life unless you want to spend money playing an...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Cardfight!! Vanguard Dear Days scores 44/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1881420/cardfight-vanguard-dear-daysReviews 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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