Dungeon Hearts
Skip · Strategy · 2013
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 11, under the fair line, at $2.99.
- Length
- 2.5h 10.8h to 100%
- Value
- $1.20/hr
- Reviews
- 62% of 545 positive
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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
About the game
Dungeon Hearts fuses the strategy and pattern matching of puzzle games with the kinetic pace of action games. Align magical runes as they flow along the Fatestream to attack, defend, and conjure magic in frenetic battles against a bestiary of fantastic creatures out to use those same runes against you.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, DirectX 9.0c compatible, 399 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 81 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 67 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is cheaper than 78 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 91 percent. On the same math You Must Build A Boat ($4.99, scores 56) and 10,000,000 ($4.99, scores 71) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about Dungeon Hearts
The press liked it more than its buyers did, 73 against 62 percent.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 8 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 2.5-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Inside the two-hour refund window, 50 percent of the 156 reviews written there were positive, against 62 percent overall, and those are 44 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 2.5 hours. Doing everything runs 11, 4.3 times as long.
The drop-off
59% start to 8% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
What players say
The dungeon heart beats in my chest like a broken TV - I'm a happy hostage of its lags and immortal monsters with no save.
2 more reviews, 2 not recommended
Downloading this game what I thought was gonna be a quirky little "match-3 with a twist" kinda gig. Instead? I got a head-smashing throat choking piece of loitered early access candy crush but possibly far worse. The "twist"? four heroes glued to the left side of the screen like constipated action figures, while colored runes slither toward them like a gangbang of Skittles on cocaine. Each level? EXACTLY the same...
I have tried this game on and off for years and it's still just as frustrating as it was 3 computers ago. (My time played is a bit off, I have more hours from offline years ago). It starts out fine but then quickly becomes overwhelming. Once you start losing a round, you're pretty much screwed, even on easy; Especially if there's a health drain on a party member. You just can't move the mouse fast enough and the...
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Cite this score
Dungeon Hearts scores 11/100 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/229520/dungeon-heartsReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.