Dark Messiah of Might & Magic
Worth it · RPG · 2006
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $2.49.
- Reviews
- 91% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 83% over the last 30 days against 91% all-time.
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Windows only.
Discover a new breed of Action-RPG game powered by an enhanced version of the Source™ Engine by Valve. Set in the Might & Magic® universe, players will experience ferocious combat in a dark and immersive fantasy environment. Swords, Stealth, Sorcery. Choose your way to kill.
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- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical RPG game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $2.49, set in May 2013. It has been discounted 90 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today's $2.49 at 75 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 3 percent on value. It is pricier than 61 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Arx Fatalis ($4.99, scores 77) beats it on value, while it beats Gothic® 3 ($19.99, scores 63).
The press gave it 72; the people who bought it give it 91 percent. A 19-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Players rate it 91 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 83 percent. Something recent has soured the room. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 5 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written October 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 69 percent of the 1,202 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
Players
45 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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Dark Messiah of Might & Magic scores 72/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). Length is estimated at 8 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/2100/dark-messiah-of-might-magicThe 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 3, price as of Sep 24.
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