Disciples Sacred Lands Gold

Disciples Sacred Lands Gold

Fair · Strategy · 2014

Steam Deck Unsupported

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
44.2h 225.8h to 100%
Value
$0.11/hr
Reviews
86% of 420 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
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 11 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

Raising the score
Value$0.11/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Holding it back
Reviews86% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 84% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 222 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Disciples GOLD takes the phenomenal gameplay, stunning graphics, over 100 spells and a powerful scenario editor of Disciples and adds new scenarios and gameplay features that set the new standard in Turn-Based Strategy.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 31 MB of memory, Direct X compatible SVGA video card, 246 MB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

It has been discounted 113 times in the 12 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 80 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

On value it sits in the top 5 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 87 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Disciples II: Rise of the Elves ($5.99, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats Disciples II: Gallean's Return ($5.99, scores 65).

More about Disciples Sacred Lands Gold

None of the 222 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to July 2026.

The main story runs 44.2 hours. Doing everything runs 226, 5.1 times as long.

Players

Players online
15 when we last checked, on Oct 16, 15:56 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

This is fantasy turn-based strategy game, inspired by Heroes of Might & Magic as it is it's rival. Game includes 16 missions in saga mode, 4 missions for each of races. To finish one mission, it takes from 30 min to 2 hours, depends on your gameplay. Between missions of same campaign, you are able to transfer one commander of your choice, with 3 items of your choice Game also includes quest mode, where you have 1...
ChromistrRecommendedafter 23hFeb 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I have reached enlightenment. This game showed up at my house mysteriously as a youth, probably a purchase from a grandparent when we got our first family computer and yet to get internet, so we mostly played cereal box games and tycoons. I always loved the art of this game, but never really knew how to play it properly. It was one of those games that every few weeks I would just pop it in and play a bit, then move...
Invictus_EngageRecommendedafter 34hNov 2025Read on Steam
If you are new to the series, don't buy this game and instead get Disciples 2. Why? Aside from the campaign, Disciples 2 is essentially a "remake" of the first game with added units, better graphics, quality of life features, and more polish. It is what the first game should have been. Disciples Sacred Lands is not a bad game, its just that it pales in features compared to D2.
REGULATORNot recommendedafter 5.8hJan 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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Disciples Sacred Lands Gold scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/281450/disciples-sacred-lands-gold
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Reviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

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Details

DeveloperStrategy First
PublisherStrategy First
GenreStrategy
Released2014
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate