Path of Achra
Worth it · Roguelike · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.99, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since May 2023.
- Length
- 2.3h
- Value
- $2.17/hr
- Reviews
- 98% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 50% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 30% ($6.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 50% ($4.99)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, Open GL 3.3+, 512 MB of storage. Windows only.
Path of Achra is a dark fantasy roguelike of the ancient earth, with a focus on streamlined controls and rapid hero customization. A "broken build sandbox." Fight through the deadly lands of Achra to reach the horrors of the Obelisk, and discover what lies beyond...
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 $4.99. That was December 2025. 28 discounts in the 3 years on record. They run about 25 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today's $4.99 at 50 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Value puts it in the top 5 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 62 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Rift Wizard ($14.99, scores 75) and Elin ($19.99, scores 78).
4 of the 362 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 92 percent of the 286 reviews written there were positive, against 98 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 2.3 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 81, 35 times as much.
The drop-off
98% start to 68% finishA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
33 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 09:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
It's a super-neat chain-reaction sort of coffee break roguelike. Lots of fun to plan weird builds that might work. Has a super cozy "90s hand-made shareware" look that I would compare fondly to Warlords, Castle of the Winds, TaskMaker, Crystal Quest. I also appreciate all the unusual aspects of its setting (though the game is by no means driven by plot). Plays well with mouse only. Easy to recommend!
Best game I've ever played in terms of theory-crafting builds to be broken/fun synergies yet within a pretty short time frame of each run. Particularly enjoyable that there are lots of builds possible for stranger archetypes like staying still, teleporting around, summoning hordes, etc. Graphics grow on you super quickly, although you will be too engrossed in the game and breaking builds to notice anyway...
Posting this review after getting my first victory. This is a neat little roguelike (in the literal sense) that strips away dungeon exploration in lieu of straightforward combat arenas. For many character builds, even tactics are stripped away to a degree. The entire angle of character building is stacking triggers to make things happen, and one of those triggers is "stand still", which seems to sub in for the...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Path of Achra scores 84/100 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/2128270/path-of-achraReviews 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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