Forgotten Mines
Skip · Roguelike · 2024
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 48, under the fair line, at $1.99.
- Length
- 2h
- Value
- $1.00/hr
- Reviews
- 80% of 333 positive
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Buy now or wait
It is 75% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- 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
About the game
Wreak vengeance and retake lost mines from goblins, orcs, skeletons, and demons in this small-scale tactical roguelite RPG. Build the perfect expedition team and turn the underworld red with each challenging, fast-paced run.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 205 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 25 times in the 2 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 40 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today's $1.99 at 75 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
It is cheaper than 71 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, The Last Spell ($6.24, scores 78) beats it on value, while it beats Pathway ($15.99, scores 43).
More about Forgotten Mines
3 of the 301 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2024 to August 2026.
The drop-off
79% start to 22% 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
- Players online
- 2 when we last checked, on Oct 9, 20:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I liked it very much! It has a lot of detph, lot of synergies and replayability. A bit too grindy, I don't know if I'm getting better or if it's just the 25% damage modifiers haha.
2 more reviews
It's pretty good. Scratches that nostalgia fix for an old school rpg. Wish the party size could be bigger than 3 members but It probably wouldn't be as challenging that way.
Well, I've beaten the game on Hard with an a Kobold team, so the only remaining feats I have are finishing the game on higher descent modes, some of which seem borderline impossible. With this in mind, I think I know enough about the game to give it a fair judgment. There's a lot of fun to be had here, especially at the price point. Most of the classes in the game are distinct enough to add replay value, and because...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Forgotten Mines scores 48/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2238630/forgotten-minesReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.