Braveland
Fair · RPG · 2014
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 3.5h
- Value
- $2.85/hr
- Reviews
- 81% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Braveland is a turn-based game inspired by old-school strategies with hexagonal battlefield. You will start as a humble warrior's son whose village was cruelly raided and will end as talented commander of your army.
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.79. That was December 2022. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 112 in the 13 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 5 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 12 percent on value. It is pricier than 60 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 78 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Dead Age ($14.99, scores 57) beats it on value, while it beats Plebby Quest: The Crusades ($19.99, scores 46).
Of the 375 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 61 percent of the 135 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 3.5 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
21% start to 12% 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
1 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Simple and quite easy indie game with a boardgame aesthetic to the map and turn-based combat inspired by the Heroes of Might and Magic games. Feels a bit like a phone game (no idea if it ever was) but doesn't have any of the grind-or-pay aspects associated with those.
A charming turn-based strategy game with beautiful pixel art and engaging combat. The storyline is captivating, and the gameplay offers a nice balance of tactics and exploration. Perfect for fans of classic strategy games looking for a relaxing yet challenging experience!
Very short game for the price. The game overall is fun but finishing it in 3 hours in normal mode is not worth the price in my opinion. I have played free games for longer
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Braveland scores 56/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/285800/bravelandThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 10, price as of Sep 24.
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