Yi Xian: The Cultivation Card Game

Yi Xian: The Cultivation Card Game

Skip · Strategy · 2024

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

The reviews do not carry it. What it costs you is time.

Length
2h
Price
Free to play
Reviews
74% positive
Length
2h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
Free
price ÷ main-story length
Price
Free
Reviews
74%
6,863 reviews, as of Sep 19
Players
750K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2024

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel Grahics Series, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

Yi Xian: The Cultivation Card Game is an online DBG which contains a PVE mode called Uncharted Realms and a PVP mode. Every game is a deck building from scratch. Players can have stronger decks by changing cards, and then build more powerful routines to defeat all opponents to win.
Description from the Steam store page.

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

What we assumed
  • Steam lists in-app purchases but we have no detail on them. Small caution applied.
Raising the score
ValueFree
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Holding it back
Reviews74% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach750K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). A free game has no price to weigh, so this is its value read
MonetizationIn-app purchases
Steam lists in-app purchases and nothing more is known, so a small haircut
For context
Length2 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
RefundsFree
A free game cannot be refunded, so the label never applies
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

Value puts it in the top 36 percent of the games it competes with. Among the games that feel like it, Mythgard (free, scores 62) beats it on value, while it beats Warhammer The Horus Heresy: Legions (scores 8).

Inside the two-hour refund window, 61 percent of the 303 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.

543 players were online in it when we last checked, on Oct 1, 17:46 UTC.

The drop-off

62% start to 4% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

543 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 17:46 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Yi Xian: The Cultivation Card Game scores 35/100 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/1948800/yi-xian-the-cultivation-card-game
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 19.

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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperDarksun Studio
PublisherDarksun Studio
GenreStrategy
Released2024
Achievements36