Nordic Ashes: Survivors of Ragnarok
Worth it · Roguelike · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99.
- Length
- 7h
- Value
- $1.43/hr
- Reviews
- 88% positive
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely between Oct 6 and Oct 19, at about $5.99 (40% off). Calls like this were right 80% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks. Its own discounts have started about 45 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
- 35% ($6.49)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 40% ($5.99)
- Last discount ended
- 20 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GTX 660 Ti / HD 7870, 532 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Nordic Ashes: Survivors of Ragnarok, is a challenging Norse inspired roguelite-survivor game, where you’ll have to survive hordes of creatures that come your way.
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
It has never been cheaper than $3.99. That was May 2023. Its cuts run 25 percent off as a rule. There have been 37 in the 4 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
On value it sits in the top 26 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 62 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 72 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Yet Another Zombie Survivors ($14.99, scores 77) beats it on value, while it beats Spellbook Demonslayers ($3.69, scores 31).
12 of the 800 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, 61 percent of the 347 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 7 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
92% 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
22 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 08:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Nordic Ashes is one of the most addictive survivor-like games I've played. I've put over 100 hours into it, and it still manages to keep me coming back for "just one more run." The game has a great mix of fast-paced combat, character progression, unlockable abilities, and challenging stages. Each character feels different to play, and experimenting with builds makes every run enjoyable. There's a satisfying sense of...
Add this to the "Bullet Heaven" games; Like 'Vampire Survivors', 'Brotato', 'Soulstone Survivors', 'Halls of Torment' etc. Addiction for these games are real!
6/10, only recommend on the steepest of discounts. It's not bad! It could be a 9 with some of the polish that it's got. But it's death by a thousand minor annoyances which make me honestly wonder if the developers actually play their game like a player. And if they do, they must hate themselves. - Like what is with leaving the player corpse sitting for 5 seconds without the option to just GO. I get it, I'm dead, and...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Nordic Ashes: Survivors of Ragnarok scores 69/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2068280/nordic-ashes-survivors-of-ragnarokReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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