The Age of Decadence

The Age of Decadence

Skip · RPG · 2015

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 44, under the fair line, at $14.99.

Reviews
82% positive
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Price
$14.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
82%
4,052 reviews, as of Sep 6
Metacritic
81
critic score
Players
350K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2015
Length + $/hr
No data
no length in our data yet

Minimum on the Steam store: 3 GB of memory, Nvidia Geforce GTS 250 / Radeon HD 4770 (1Gb) or better, 1.9 GB of storage. Windows only.

The Age of Decadence is a turn-based, hardcore role-playing game set in a low magic fantasy world. The game features a detailed skill-based character system, multiple skill-based ways to handle quests, choices & consequences, and extensive dialogue trees.
Description from the Steam store page.

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

What we assumed
  • How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical RPG game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
Raising the score
Engagement10% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value, est. length~$1.87/hr
Estimated: no length in our data yet
Reviews82% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Length unknownNo verified $/hr
No length in our data yet, so the biggest driver can't be verified. A heavy dock until it is
For context
Reach350K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 547 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

February 2021 is where it bottomed out, at $3.24. Its cuts run 60 percent off as a rule. There have been 90 in the 13 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 25 percent on value. It is pricier than 78 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 81 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Colony Ship: A Post-Earth Role Playing Game ($39.99, scores 59) beats it on value, while it beats Ash of Gods: Redemption ($24.99, scores 35).

Steam's global achievement data puts about 10 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. 1 of the 547 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 45 percent of the 240 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

48% start to 10% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements

Players

9 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 05:48 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

Cite this score

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The Age of Decadence scores 44/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is estimated at 8 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/230070/the-age-of-decadence
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 6, price as of Oct 1.

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Critics vs players+1
Critics
81
Players
82
Critics and players agree on this one.
Metacritic critics · 4,052 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperIron Tower Studio
PublisherIron Tower Studio
GenreRPG
Released2015
Achievements109