Dawnfolk
Worth it · Roguelike · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $14.99.
- Length
- 6.4h 40h to 100%
- Value
- $2.34/hr
- Reviews
- 95% of 730 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 6 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
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
Dawnfolk is a charmingly dark, casual and puzzly survival building game. Gather resources, rebuild your realm, and protect your people from oppressive shadows. Can you unveil the secrets of the monoliths and bring light back to the world?
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 2 GB VRAM, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 13 times in the 2 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 30 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 10 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 12 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 91 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Gnomes ($9.99, scores 78) beats it on value, while it beats Border Pioneer ($14.99, scores 63).
More about Dawnfolk
Of the 337 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 90 percent of the 189 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 29 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 6.4 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 40, 6.3 times as much.
At 6.4 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
75% start to 17% finishA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
This is a cute little game. The curious adventures are definitely a challenge. Good stuff.
2 more reviews
One of my favorite games to play on the Ayn Thor. The mini game mechanics are great and the music makes the whole experience very relaxing.
cute little game, interesting mechanics, refreshing for a city builder, if you like what you see in the store page, you will most likely enjoy the game
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Dawnfolk scores 75/100 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/2308630/dawnfolkReviews 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.