ASKA
Fair · Strategy · 2024 · Early Access
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $24.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 30.4h
- Value
- $0.82/hr
- Reviews
- 80% positive
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely between Oct 13 and Oct 26, at about $19.99 (20% off). Calls like this were right 78% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks. Its own discounts have started about 59 days apart.
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 40% ($14.99)
- Last discount ended
- 6 days ago
Watch it for a saleSources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 (6GB) or AMD RX 590, 6 GB of storage. Windows only.
A new Viking age dawns with you at its helm. Forge a thriving colony from nothing in this mythic open-world survival sim. Earn the gods' favor and survive in a land ruled by ancient terrors and unforgiving seasons. Rally unique villagers, expand your settlement and defend your tribe - solo or co-op!
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
June 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $14.99. Its cuts run 35 percent off as a rule. There have been 21 in the 2 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 6 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 11 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 78 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Raft ($19.99, scores 89) beats it on value, while it beats Volcanoids ($19.99, scores 52).
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 21 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 36 percent of the 761 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
89% start to 8% 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
Okay, only 1480 hours played in this game so far, but I feel despite being a total newbie to the game and gaming in general I can honestly say, this has been one and IS still one of my favorite games of all time. I just need more games is all! I like supporting Early Access games from smaller developers, much like I did with SOTF, The Forest, and many others, and love when developers are listening to the players and...
Playtime: 113.8 hours on record (Spring through Fall, and the edge of Winter) Title: A genuinely beautiful, actively supported survival sim-hindered by a few stubborn design quirks. If you're wondering if 110+ hours is enough to judge ASKA, it is. It's a stunning Viking colony sim with immense heart, backed by developers who clearly care and aren't treating this as a quick cash grab. However, looking at it through a...
HORRIBLE game. Maybe once you get a lot of time in it gets better as your workers start doing the chores, but doing them yourself SUCKS. Clunky, slow and boring. Healing options limited, and inventory nearly non-existent. Hunting with a bow got me killed trying to figure out what most games make instinctual. THEN the save realization hits: Default saves every in game morning? Lost two hours of play time. I gave up...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
ASKA scores 55/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1898300/askaReviews 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 19, price as of Oct 1.
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