The Spell Brigade
Fair · Roguelike · 2026
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $12.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Cost per hour
- $3.61/hr
- Reviews▼
- 82% of 17,181
- Genre rank
- Top 38% Roguelike
Holding it back: Reviews, Reach
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Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 3.6h
- To 100%
- 64.9h 18.0x the story
- Achievements
- 128
Price and sales
- Sales
- 14 on record
- Typical cut
- 25% off
- Steam low
- $6.49 March 2026
- Sale every
- 57d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 1,807 now
- Recent reviews
- 87% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 43% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 56% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
48% start to <1% rarestA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 14 discounts in the 2 years tracked, the median cut is 25 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 38 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Vellum ($19.99, scores 69) beats it on value, while it beats Apocalypse Party ($9.99, scores 35).
More about The Spell Brigade
This site sampled 399 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 3 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2026 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 60 percent of the 537 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 3.6 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 65, 18 times as much.
At 3.6 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 29 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
It's not a bad game, but as a roguelike lover this just doesn't live up to other games in the genre. I really tried giving it a shot (15+ hours over several months) but I just found there isn't much variety in builds, with only a handful of spells, half of which are kind of bad, the elemental infusions don't really change gameplay that much in my experience, and the minigame objectives range from boring to actively...
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About the game
Survivors-like with ONLINE CO-OP for 1-4 players. Team up with your wizard friends to slay hordes of dark creatures. Complete team-based objectives, unlock new upgrades and create overpowered spell synergies. Friend nor foe is safe in this friendly fire bullet hell!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Geforce GTX 1050 or similar, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Spell Brigade scores 56/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2904000/the-spell-brigadeReviews 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 Oct 31, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.