Bulwark: Falconeer Chronicles
Fair · Strategy · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 16.5h
- Value
- $1.21/hr
- Reviews
- 85% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, Intel Arc A380. or Nvidia GTX 1650 or AMD RX 6400, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
Bulwark blends casual and creative building elements with touches of strategy and exploration. It's an experimental mix of genres that can be enjoyed casually or as an epic conquest featuring naval units, air units, and fortresses.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
February 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $8.99. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 22 in the 2 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 6 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. Dorfromantik ($13.99, scores 97) outscores it, and so does Townscaper ($5.99, scores 69). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
17 of the 503 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2024 to July 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,864 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 753 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 59 percent of the 224 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
The drop-off
84% start to 5% 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
14 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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Bulwark: Falconeer Chronicles scores 62/100 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/290100/bulwark-falconeer-chroniclesThe 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 Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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