Ad Fundum
Worth it · RPG · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $6.99.
- Length
- 9.4h 14.2h to 100%
- Value
- $0.74/hr
- Reviews
- 92% of 542 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. 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
Take control of a giant mech and dive into an exciting underground adventure in a dieselpunk world! Dig deep, collect valuable minerals, upgrade wisely, explore diverse locations, uncover ancient secrets, and try not to explode! Will you save the world or vanish in the depths below?
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 or ATI Radeon HD 4890, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 22 times in the 2 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 60 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 60 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Littlewood ($14.99, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats PickCrafter (free, scores 62).
More about Ad Fundum
Steam's global achievement data puts 37 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 325 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2024 to August 2026.
At 9.4 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
83% start to 37% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 3 when we last checked, on Oct 19, 00:53 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Old flash classic reimagined. If you happened to play flash game called Motherload back in the day, and are looking for a game to scratch the same itch you just found it - Ad Fundum is a great successor to that old gem of a game. I didn't play the demo, grabbed the game at the tail end of sale and went in with expectation of similar game to Motherload, maybe a 1:1 recreation but nothing more. To my surprise this...
2 more reviews
its just a better version of Motherload. i got exactly what i expected. good game.
It's a better version of Mother Lode, the old flash game banger. 3 hours in and I feel like I'm less than half way. Great level design, super good pacing and it's got good upgrades, priced just right to get that 'one more run' syndrome.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Ad Fundum scores 84/100 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/2647820/ad-fundumReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.