Card-en-Ciel
Worth it · Roguelike · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $12.49, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Oct 2024.
- Length
- 12.6h
- Value
- $0.99/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 50% off today.
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 35% ($16.24)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 50% ($12.49)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 or equivalent, 6 GB of storage. Windows only.
Card-en-Ciel is a roguelite card-battling RPG featuring over 300 different cards and 50 unique vocal songs! Play as Neon, the "Gaming Chair Detective" famous for solving net-crimes, as he encounters a strange new case when he dives into an in-development game world.
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
The value story
June 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $12.49. It has been discounted 22 times in the 2 years tracked here, typically at 35 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today's $12.49 at 50 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Value puts it in the top 25 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 88 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 76 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Tainted Grail: Conquest ($19.99, scores 72) beats it on value, while it beats Trials of Fire ($19.99, scores 64).
This site sampled 380 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 5 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written October 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 80 percent of the 107 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 12.6 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 42, 3.4 times as much.
The drop-off
91% start to 1% 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
22 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 14:51 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Card-en-Ciel scores 69/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2730540/card-en-cielReviews 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 Sep 28, price as of Oct 2.
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