FATE
Worth it · Roguelike · 2013
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $7.99. Typically $3.99 in seasonal sales. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17.
- Cost per hour
- $0.60/hr
- ReviewsS
- 95% of 4,494
- Critics
- 80 players 15 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 3% Roguelike
Holding it back: Reach
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 13.3h
- To 100%
- 17.1h 1.3x the story
- Achievements
- 10
Price and sales
- Sales
- 36 on record
- Typical cut
- 55% off
- Steam low
- $0.79 August 2020
- Sale every
- 62d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 42 now
- Cheaper than
- 67% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 97% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
84% start to 8% rarestA 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
The value story
The value story
Across all 36 discounts in the 13 years tracked, the median cut is 55 percent, about 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 3 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 67 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Torchlight II ($3.99, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats Last Epoch ($34.99, scores 35).
More about FATE
80 from critics against 95 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Of the 417 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to November 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 363 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
My mom had this game on her crappy laptop when I was a kid. Still as fun as I remember it being.
2 more reviews
Played this game throughout my childhood. It's been wonderful to find it and play again <3
A great and simple ARPG. If you played the demo for this way back in the day when it came with your WINDOWS VISTA PC from WildTangent. At first you'll be delving dungeons upgrading, buying, and selling the different pieces of gear you'll find. Eventually though you'll spend half of your time fishing and enchanting items. Restarting the game when you get a result you don't want. Much like the games namesake you're...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Play (or Re-play) This Classic Dungeon Crawler!During the golden days of action RPGs, FATE was a powerhouse, winning runner-up for PC Magazine’s Role-Playing Game of the year. Popular enough to spawn 3 sequels, this was one of the premier dungeon crawlers of its time.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 16 MB 3D Graphics Accelerator, 399 MB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
FATE scores 83/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/246840/fateReviews 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 Oct 17, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.