Pillars of Eternity
Worth it · RPG · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $29.99.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.83/hr
- Reviews▼
- 89% of 26,221
- Critics
- 89
- Genre rank
- Top 3% RPG
Holding it back: Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 36.3h
- To 100%
- 111.3h 3.1x the story
- Finish
- 15% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 48
Price and sales
- Sales
- 99 on record
- Typical cut
- 60% off
- Steam low
- $9.99 October 2020
- Sale every
- 35d last September 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 170 now
- Recent reviews
- 89% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 5% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 92% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
47% start to 15% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 99 times in the 12 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 60 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 3 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition ($19.99, scores 81) beats it on value, while it beats Tyranny ($29.99, scores 62).
More about Pillars of Eternity
Steam's global achievement data puts about 15 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 36.3-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2022 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 60 percent of the 401 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 2 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 36.3 hours. Doing everything runs 111, 3.1 times as long.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 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
Проходил игру в пошаговом режиме, по-моему это гораздо лучше чем дурацкая псевдо реальное время с постоянными паузами. В целом из сильных сторон лор и все повествование про переселние душ, приличные длс про перевел снежный, хотя финальные бои с безликими затянуты безбожно, являются не столько сложными, сколько душными и долгими. Зачистка подземельий нашего замка довольно неплохой филер между квестами и можно узнать...
2 more reviews
I love how much this game draws inspiration from older cRPGs, as well as the way it iterates on their gameplay and overall feel. I truly enjoyed the exploration, combat and worldbuilding. The narration sections after each act were a beautiful treat as well. Unfortunately, the game can get quite bloated with the DLC and the sheer amount of side quests scattered around the map. I wish that, at least for a first...
Pillars of Eternity is a whole is greater than the sum of its parts. As a whole, this is a really solid contemporary CRPG, and one that bridges the golden era of the Infinity Engine games with modern sensibilities. Obsidian sort of deconstructs games like Icewind Dale, Planescape, and Baldur's Gate and reconstructs them into something new and engaging. The best part of this game is the story. Like many great CRPG...
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About the game
Prepare to be enchanted by a world where the choices you make and the paths you choose shape your destiny. Obsidian Entertainment, the developer of Fallout: New Vegas™ and South Park: The Stick of Truth™, together with Paradox Interactive is proud to present Pillars of Eternity.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, ATI Radeon HD 4850 or NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT, 14 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Pillars of Eternity scores 79/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/291650/pillars-of-eternityReviews 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 Nov 6, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.