Scarmonde
BANGER · RPG · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $13.99.
- Length
- 24h 38h to 100%
- Value
- $0.58/hr
- Reviews
- 99% of 230 positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it goes on sale.
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
8-Bit Styled dungeon-crawler wherein you assemble a party from 12 Classes to brave The Depths in search of the Dragon God's Sacred Treasures!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, DirectX 9/OpenGL 4.1 capable GPU, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
20 discounts in the 2 years on record, a median of 35 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 70 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling ($19.99, scores 96) beats it on value, while it beats Small Saga ($19.99, scores 71).
The math says it holds its tier up to $24.28.
More about Scarmonde
Steam's global achievement data puts about 17 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 24-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. None of the 213 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2024 to July 2026.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
90% start to 17% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
What players say
Scarmonde is what happens with you take Final Fantasy 1 and integrate the game design decisions and lessons learned over almost 30 years of RPG design. Party Composition is important to consider, but allows for excellent min/maxing as well as just throwing a team together and seeing what happens. The jobs all feel unique in either their roles or passive boons. Gear and trinkets always have a use case. Status effect...
2 more reviews
Had my eyes on this game for a while and picked it up on a whim a bit ago. A really good dungeon grinder. Taking advantage of status ailments in battle, even against bosses, is fun. Also encouraged, since they take advantage of hitting you with status ailments, too. Enjoyed exploring the many dungeons and the world. 99% of the music in the game is a banger. I honestly have nothing bad to say about the game.
There's a lot to like in Scarmonde, with just a few complaints that barely tarnished my experience. The standout feature was the deep class system and character customization, be it through skill acquisition, gear that can profoundly impact a character's playstyle or the sub-class system. It was also nice to see a JRPG implementing a functional aggro system, allowing tank-style builds to shine in ways that many...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Scarmonde scores 90/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2769210/scarmondeReviews 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 30, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.