Warlock - Master of the Arcane
Skip · Strategy · 2012
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $24.99.
- Reviews
- 86% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, GeForce GT240 512Mb or comparable, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
In a time of chaotic upheaval, the player takes the role of a great mage, a warlord vying for ultimate power.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. The score is docked for the missing length.
The value story
September 2013 is where it bottomed out, at $4.99. 57 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 22 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Age of Wonders III ($29.99, scores 57) beats it on value, while it beats Warlock 2: The Exiled ($19.99, scores 28).
71 from critics against 86 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
2 of the 245 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to May 2026.
Players
27 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Warlock - Master of the Arcane scores 45/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). Length is not in our data, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/203630/warlock-master-of-the-arcaneThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 1, price as of Sep 22.
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