Spectromancer

Spectromancer

Fair · Multiplayer · 2009

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $6.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
7.2h 130h to 100%
Value
$0.97/hr
Reviews
88% of 382 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 5 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 224 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

Holding it back
Reviews88% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 86% after the small-sample adjustment
Reach150K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
DRMThird-party DRM
Third-party copy protection, a small friction discount
AI contentDisclosed
The developer disclosed AI-generated content on Steam, so the score takes a heavy dock
For context
Value$0.97/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 193 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked

About the game

A turn-based online fantasy card game. No character leveling, no grinding, no deck building - just 100% skill-based and fast-paced card battles!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 123 MB of memory, GeForce-2 class or faster with 32+ MB RAM, 1024x768 screen resolution, 51 MB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

47 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 32 weeks ago.

Value puts it in the top 16 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 89 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Gremlins, Inc. ($19.99, scores 57) beats it on value, while it beats Stormbound (free, scores 25).

More about Spectromancer

HowLongToBeat players log 7.2 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 130, 18 times as much.

The drop-off

8% 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

What players say

I got tired of mtg. This is fun and simple. Oldschool fantasy card art is also great imo.
MirrodinRecommendedafter 29hJun 2025Read on Steam
1 more review, not recommended
They removed the ability to create your own deck which is a part of the gathering of power dlc. Without the ability to make your own deck, the harder campaign battles become luck based as you hope for the cards you want. Can't understand why on Earth you'd want to do this. Apart from that it's the same Spectromancer as before which is an excellent card game without collection. But why they'd remove the most...
Lord ScaramoucheNot recommendedafter 12hFeb 2026Read 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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Spectromancer scores 53/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The developer disclosed AI-generated content on Steam, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/22500/spectromancer
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Reviews 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.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperApus Software
PublisherThree Donkeys LLC
GenreMultiplayer
Released2009
Players150Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements51