Din's Curse

Din's Curse

Fair · RPG · 2012

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
20.8h
Value
$0.48/hr
Reviews
86% of 252 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
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 11 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$0.48/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Holding it back
Reviews86% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 83% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 66 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

Din, champion of the gods, has cursed you into a second life of service because you selfishly squandered your first one while causing misfortune to those around you.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, GeForce 2 (or equivalent) or better, 205 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

The value story

It has been discounted 82 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 7 percent on value. It is pricier than 62 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 84 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Heroes of Hammerwatch ($14.99, scores 70) beats it on value, while it beats Dungeons of Edera ($14.99, scores 19).

More about Din's Curse

Critics scored it 76. Players sit 10 points higher at 86 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.

The drop-off

35% start to <1% 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

Players

Players online
1 when we last checked, on Oct 14, 22:55 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

Din's Curse is an action RPG that takes the familiar framework of dungeon crawling and infuses it with an impressive degree of dynamism and unpredictability. Developed and published by Soldak Entertainment, it approaches the genre from a systems-driven perspective, treating its towns, dungeons, monsters, and NPCs as interconnected elements that evolve in real time. Rather than presenting a static world waiting for...
xxadonisxxRecommendedafter 14hNov 2025Read on Steam
2 more reviews
This games actually not to bad and it grows on you as you play. When you first load it up and look at it, it looks cheap and unapppealing but as you play abit it grabs you and brings you in, yea its abit on the dated side, but the game is still so playable and enjoyable, to the point I had to finish it and aim to unlock all the achievements. A very decent dungeon crawler! A+!
joltzRecommendedafter 53hOct 2025Read on Steam
This is a fun little RPG. It's hugely replayable, as every town is different and you have to do different things to save each town (most of these are "Kill X monster", "Destroy X Machine", or "Collect X Items", but they're just slightly different enough to stay interesting). There are some flaws in the game, the graphics are extremely dated and can be glitchy, and townspeople behave like idiots (starving to death...
James RussellRecommendedafter 61h100 found this helpfulRead on Steam

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

Cite this score

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Din's Curse scores 66/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/217290/din-s-curse
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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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+10
Critics76
Players86
Metacritic critics · 252 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperSoldak Entertainment
PublisherSoldak Entertainment
GenreRPG
Released2012
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements51