Renowned Explorers: International Society
Worth it · Roguelike · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99.
- Length
- 5.7h
- Value
- $3.51/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
In this strategic rogue-like you become a famous expedition leader in the 19th century. You form your own crew with the skills and personality to discover legendary treasures, while exploring randomized locations and stories on every new adventure.
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $3.99, set in October 2018. It has been discounted 50 times in the 11 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 17 percent on value. It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 84 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Terminus: Zombie Survivors ($19.99, scores 81) beats it on value, while it beats Dead Age ($14.99, scores 57).
Of the 355 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 58 percent of the 106 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 5.7 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 93, 16 times as much.
The drop-off
82% 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
7 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
Very Well Done. Skipping tutorials gives it another layer of exploration for a well thought out game. Any discount is generous. 110 minutes in first session for $4. All Day.
One of my all time favorites! I enjoy roguelikes and RPGs alot, and this one scratches all the itches. Highly recommend!
Its a charming game about exploration that feels a bit like a massive board game.
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.
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Renowned Explorers: International Society scores 76/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/296970/renowned-explorers-international-societyThe 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 Sep 20, price as of Sep 20.
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