The Spell Brigade
Fair · Roguelike · 2026
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $12.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 3.6h
- Value
- $3.61/hr
- Reviews
- 81% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Geforce GTX 1050 or similar, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
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!
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $6.49. That was March 2026. Its cuts run 25 percent off as a rule. There have been 13 in the 2 years tracked, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 8 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 39 percent on value. On the same math Vellum ($19.99, scores 68) and SYNTHETIK: Legion Rising ($19.99, scores 82) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
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 81 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.
The drop-off
48% start to <1% 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
3,580 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
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...
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.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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The Spell Brigade 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/2904000/the-spell-brigadeThe 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 23.
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