Blacksmith Master
Fair · Strategy · 2025 · Early Access
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 15.2h
- Value
- $1.32/hr
- Reviews
- 84% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 5 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 50% ($9.99)
- Last discount ended
- 26 days ago
Watch it for a saleSources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 (1 GB) / AMD Radeon HD 7770 (1 GB), 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.
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
The value story
December 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $9.99. 13 discounts in the 17 months on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 11 percent on value. It is pricier than 88 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 86 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Clanfolk ($29.99, scores 80) beats it on value, while it beats Patron ($19.99, scores 29).
This site sampled 398 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 5 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written January 2026 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 56 percent of the 190 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 15.2 hours. Doing everything runs 31, 2.0 times as long.
The drop-off
94% start to 13% 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
Players
53 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 02:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
tl;dr: the early game in this is excellent and the mid-game is even better, but holy crap it has an end game problem. Still, if the concept appeals to you at all, there's a ton of fun to be had here particularly at the normal sale price. That's the gist. If you want to know more, read on... First, let's get into what Blacksmith Master is NOT: Blacksmith Master is not a store simulator, and despite having the look of...
A fun game to min/max and push for achievements. The way its currently designed doesn't really favor being a blacksmith though... #PotteryMaster
Fun for the first 2 hours and then it just becomes a repeat of buying larger space, adding the same things, hiring more people and wait for more money to come in to buy more space, adding the same things etc.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Blacksmith Master scores 55/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2292800/blacksmith-masterReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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