Looper Tactics

Looper Tactics

Worth it · RPG · 2023

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $10.99.

Length
10.5h
Value
$1.05/hr
Reviews
89% of 528 positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 10 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

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

Raising the score
Value$1.05/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Engagement16% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Reviews89% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 87% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds2 of 349 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

About the game

Welcome again, wandering soul. Will this be the time of your success? Watch your steps as you advance in this roguelike-deck builder and engage in auto-battler card encounters of increasing difficulty. Get stronger in each battle, rise from the ashes, and break free from endless reincarnation!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 550 Ti (3072 VRAM); Radeon HD 6850 (1024 VRAM), 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

The value story

It has been discounted 33 times in the 3 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 30 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 10 days ago.

On value it sits in the top 5 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 63 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Cat God Ranch ($6.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats Out Of Hands ($17.99, scores 61).

More about Looper Tactics

Steam's global achievement data puts about 16 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 10.5-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 349 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2023 to August 2026.

The drop-off

62% start to 16% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

A normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements

Players

Players online
1 when we last checked, on Sep 29, 16:54 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

Looper Tactics, developed by Inkstone Atelier and published by 2P Games and Gamersky Games, is a layered strategy experience that merges deck-building mechanics with roguelite structure and board-style exploration. It doesn't settle into a single genre comfortably, instead drawing from several established systems and weaving them into a loop that emphasizes planning, adaptability, and long-term decision-making. The...
xxadonisxxRecommendedafter 17hApr 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews
The game is very fun but with a very light story. The gameplay is similar to Hearthstone Battlegrounds in some aspects like having different factions for monsters (elemental, elf, demon, dragon, mech and human, this last one is only if you have the dlc). The game as battlegrounds have triples, but there are triples for both minions and spells also, some spells have more than one triple upgrade, being able to make...
totote97Recommendedafter 13hJul 2025Read on Steam
Very fun, happy I got it and played it, finding all of the hidden pieces got frustrating deeper in the progression for me.
EmeraldkingRecommendedafter 15hMay 2025Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Looper Tactics scores 70/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2140850/looper-tactics
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperInkstone Atelier
Publisher2P Games
GenreRPG
Released2023
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements28