GemCraft - Chasing Shadows
BANGER · Action · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
A BANGER today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 80% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$9.99BANGER
Typical seasonal cut
$1.9980% offBANGER
- Cost per hourS
- $0.20/hr
- ReviewsS
- 95% of 4,422
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Action
Watch this gameOne alert at $1.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 48.9h
- To 100%
- 115.6h 2.4x the story
- Finish
- 20% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 419
Price and sales
- Sales
- 71 on record
- Typical cut
- 60% off
- Steam low
- $1.99 December 2015
- Sale every
- 47d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 95 now
- Cheaper than
- 24% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
89% start to 20% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 71 discounts in the 12 years tracked, the median cut is 60 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 10 days ago.
Its score sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 76 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including GemCraft - Frostborn Wrath ($12.99, scores 80) and Infested Planet ($14.99, scores 71).
The math says it holds its tier up to $56.61, and you are being asked for $9.99.
More about GemCraft - Chasing Shadows
Steam's global achievement data puts about 20 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 48.9-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 391 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to November 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 191 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 48.9 hours; clearing it takes 116, which is 2.4 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 10 days ago.
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
One of the two best tower defence games ever. The other one is Frostborn Wrath from the same developer
2 more reviews
It's decent early game but once you go past wizard level 1000 the meta tends to get repetitive, i would say 50-100 hours are good, anything more than that and it becomes stale. -iron wizard mode and some vision levels are kinda meh, just play normal -Don't use bloodbound instead of poolbound unless you are going for grade 40+ gems which you probably won't see before finishing the game.
only played for a bit so far but i can already tell this is PEAK. and i got it for $2. it was very well spent.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
An epic, challenging tower defense game with an emphasis on strategy and replayability. Summon gems of immense magical potency and harness their unique abilities against a seemingly endless horde of monsters. The archdemon seeks to swallow the world, and you must journey to stand against her.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics or better, 102 MB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
GemCraft - Chasing Shadows scores 93/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/296490/gemcraft-chasing-shadowsReviews 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 Oct 17, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.