Dark Hunting Ground
Worth it · Roguelike · 2025
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $12.99.
- Length
- 3.8h
- Value
- $3.42/hr
- Reviews
- 92% of 825 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely between Oct 27 and Nov 9, at about $6.49 (50% off). Calls like this were right 73% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks. Its own discounts have started about 51 days apart.
Last cut ended 9 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
Hunt the monsters that swarm the Dark Hunting Ground, collect the spoils, develop your skills freely and wisely and fight to become the strongest hunter!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
Across all 18 discounts in the 2 years tracked, the median cut is 30 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 16 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 85 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Chronicon ($13.99, scores 95) beats it on value, while it beats The Slormancer ($19.99, scores 49).
More about Dark Hunting Ground
1 of the 356 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2024 to August 2026.
The drop-off
56% start to 19% 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
For $6.50 it's fine, but the game hits a major bottleneck of boring grind once you get to Abyss Stars. I really enjoyed the theorycrafting in the first 50 levels of advancement. New relics and slates created new opportunities to improve your build. Eventually that all comes crashing to a halt when you hit level 50. After, you start getting these skull points that you cannot reallocate, so if you're like me and...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Dark Hunting Ground scores 72/100 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/2494810/dark-hunting-groundReviews 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 1, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.