Sacred Citadel

Sacred Citadel

Skip · Action · 2013

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 20, under the fair line, at $2.49.

Reviews
69% positive
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Price
$2.49
as of Oct 1
Reviews
69%
1,195 reviews, as of Sep 6
Metacritic
61
critic score
Players
350K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2013
Length + $/hr
No data
no length in our data yet

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce 8600 or better, ATI Radeon HD 2600 or better. Windows only.

Sharpen your axe, string your bow, brew your potions! Ancaria needs heroes like you. Grab your friends to join the resistance!The once peaceful land of Ancaria is in grave danger. The evil Ashen empire has enslaved its population and is using the orc-like Grimmoc to wipe out the Seraphim, who swore to protect it.
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
  • How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Action game (about 6 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
Raising the score
Value, est. length~$0.42/hr
Estimated: no length in our data yet
Holding it back
Reviews69% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Length unknownNo verified $/hr
No length in our data yet, so the biggest driver can't be verified. A heavy dock until it is
For context
Reach350K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 172 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
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

July 2014 is where it bottomed out, at $1.99. It has been discounted 85 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales.

It is pricier than 75 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 77 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World™: The Game – Complete Edition ($4.94, scores 39) and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection ($39.99, scores 49) both outscore it.

Critics scored it 61. Players sit 8 points higher at 69 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.

Inside the two-hour refund window, 53 percent of the 189 reviews written there were positive, against 69 percent overall, and those are 31 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

76% start to 3% 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

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Sacred Citadel scores 20/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is estimated at 6 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/207930/sacred-citadel
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 6, price as of Oct 1.

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Critics vs players+8
Critics
61
Players
69
Critics and players agree on this one.
Metacritic critics · 1,195 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperSouthend
PublisherTHQ Nordic
GenreAction
Released2013
Achievements35