The Witch's Cauldron
Worth it · Roguelike · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $7.99.
- Length
- 1.4h 16.9h to 100%
- Value
- $5.71/hr
- Reviews
- 91% of 633 positive
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
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About the game
The Witch's Cauldron is a narrative roguelike game about being a medieval witch. Grab your cauldron and get brewing. Love, curses, laughter, wisdom for sale! Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. At least before the inquisitors come around.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 512 MB display memory, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 24 discounts in the 3 years tracked, the median cut is 35 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 10 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 21 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 71 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 80 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Choice of Life: Middle Ages 2 ($1.95, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats Anvil Saga ($19.99, scores 21).
More about The Witch's Cauldron
This site sampled 353 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 5 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written January 2024 to July 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 86 percent of the 187 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 32 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 1.4 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 17, 12 times as much.
At 1.4 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
97% start to 3% rarestNo 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
Fun and chill game with some thought through additional underplot. Engaging, artistic and simple.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
The Witch's Cauldron, developed and published by Harvey games, is an indie narrative-driven roguelike that places choice, reputation, and consequence at the heart of its design. You step into the role of a witch living on the edge of society, operating from a modest cauldron and slowly weaving your influence through a medieval world shaped by superstition, fear, and quiet desperation. Rather than focusing on combat...
It's cute and it's cheap. Other than that, a bit underwhelming. The first hour or so of the game you spend unlocking every combination of the ingredients. The game is helpful in providing a list of all combinations you can try and tracking what you did. After that the game is a full-time text adventure with dozens of plot lines you can interact with by throwing potions at people. Completing a line gets you an...
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Cite this score
The Witch's Cauldron scores 69/100 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/2251010/the-witch-s-cauldronReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.