Desktop Dungeons: Rewind
Skip · Roguelike · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 42, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 49h
- Value
- $0.41/hr
- Reviews
- 77% of 653 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each 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
Desktop Dungeons: Rewind bestows bites of tactical roguelike action, which will quickly fester into a deep, lingering, and strategic obsession. Bargain with gods, equip your spoon and pick your battles, before retreating into the healing darkness. But beware… there are still many monsters to face!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 1GB VRAM, 604 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 25 discounts in the 4 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 78 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 63 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Desktop Dungeons ($14.99, scores 59) beats it on value, while it beats Rogue Waters ($29.99, scores 33).
More about Desktop Dungeons: Rewind
4 of the 424 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 67 percent of the 218 reviews written there were positive, against 77 percent overall, and those are 44 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
57% start to <1% 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
- Players online
- 2 when we last checked, on Oct 13, 02:51 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
While there are a number of things I like (inventory change new items etc) the changes to the UI and worse the playmap are terrible. The UI is just too 'busy' and has all the charm of a cheep mobile game. The map lacks good enough controls to avoid the walls frequently obscuring tiles next to them. Pure top down or even making the walls transparent on mouseover would help. or a 'classic' look option
2 more reviews, 2 not recommended
I picked this game up on discount, and initially I thought it was fun and clever, but it swiftly became nearly impossible to progress. As someone who has never played its predecessor before, I was expecting it to ease you into the game. But you get a tutorial and then the difficulty makes it so difficult to progress. You have to take different characters into the adventures, and in a game like this usually you'd...
TLDR; A fun game ruined by having to calculate every single action if you want to have a hope of clearing a level and earning any real rewards. I'd like to love it, however it just takes too much thought process to enjoy it much. Even on the normal difficulty levels you need to be extremely careful doing anything as almost everything you do either adds or subtracts resources which you need around 90% or more of used...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Desktop Dungeons: Rewind scores 42/100 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/1976950/desktop-dungeons-rewindReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.