FATE
Worth it · Roguelike · 2013
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $7.99.
- Reviews
- 95% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 16 MB 3D Graphics Accelerator, 399 MB of storage. Windows only.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
August 2020 is where it bottomed out, at $0.79. Its cuts run 55 percent off as a rule. There have been 35 in the 13 years tracked, about 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 9 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 8 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 62 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Torchlight II ($3.99, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats Last Epoch ($34.99, scores 38).
80 from critics against 95 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Of the 415 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 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.
The drop-off
84% start to 8% 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
80 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
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FATE scores 84/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/246840/fateThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 20, price as of Sep 24.
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