Dawn of Defiance
Skip · Action · 2024 · Early Access
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 30, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Reviews
- 77% positive
Buy now or wait
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
- 35% ($12.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 50% ($9.99)
- Last discount ended
- 23 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 12 GB of memory, GTX 1060 6GB VRAM, 18 GB of storage. Windows only.
You are a fallen Spartan, cast into the realm between the living and the Underworld. In this survival adventure inspired by Greek myth, hunt, craft and build a home worthy of legend with up to 3 friends. Raid the gods' temples, defeat legendary creatures and loot the iconic weapons of the Olympians.
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
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. The score is docked for the missing length.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $9.99. That was December 2024. It has been discounted 13 times in the 2 years tracked here, typically at 35 percent off, with about 10 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 72 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Valheim ($29.99, scores 92) beats it on value, while it beats Nightingale ($29.99, scores 16).
Of the 694 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 27 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2024 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,814 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 383 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 3 of the 27 refunded reviewers were past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 46 percent of the 284 reviews written there were positive, against 77 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.
Players
14 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 00:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Dawn of Defiance scores 30/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. 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/2059530/dawn-of-defianceReviews set the ceiling. With no length in our data, value sits at a neutral middle whatever the price, and the BANG Score is docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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