Cauldron
Worth it · RPG · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $14.99, a BANGER if it drops to $11.41.
- Length
- 13.3h 62.2h to 100%
- Value
- $1.13/hr
- Reviews
- 93% of 1,772 positive
Recent reviews trending down: 84% over the last 30 days against 93% all-time.
Watch this gameOne alert at $11.41 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 6 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 2 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
Cauldron is an upgrade-heavy, minigame-centric, turn-based RPG. Play minigames to strengthen your party, then win battles to uncover more map, more heroes, more minigames, more everything! If your favorite plant is an upgrade tree, then this game is for you!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 256 mb video memory, shader model 3.0+, 205 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
15 discounts in the 17 months on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Past sales have already crossed the $11.41 BANGER line 11 times.
On value it sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 73 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Melvor Idle ($9.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats 无休仙途 ($5.99, scores 29).
More about Cauldron
Steam's global achievement data puts about 17 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 13.3-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Players rate it 93 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 84 percent. Something recent has soured the room. 4 of the 427 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2025 to October 2026.
The main story runs 13.3 hours. Doing everything runs 62, 4.7 times as long.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 13.3 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
100% start to 17% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
What players say
If you like puzzles and skill trees, definitely worth it. Beware though, the music is pretty horrible
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
A great incremental game. Basically it's a minigame collection tied to a turn-based party RPG. Everything with its own skilltree. Progress in the minigames makes you stronger in combat. Finishing a game mode unlocks a new one and that also unlocks special upgrades for the minigames, changing the style of them (e.g., collecting apples turns into a bullet-hell; survivors-like gameplay shifts to ping-pong). This keeps...
as much as I want to like this game because the reviews are good.... it's just 3 boring minigames over and over? The fishing minigame still makes me want to kill myself after 3 hours of playtime and all of the upgrades feel pointless and grindy
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Cauldron scores 80/100 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/2619650/cauldronReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.