Nomad Idle
Skip · Roguelike · 2025
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 14, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Length
- 35h 142h to 100%
- Value
- $0.29/hr
- Reviews
- 65% of 889 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 6 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 9 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Face waves of enemies automatically and create builds by distributing stat points, leveling up equipment, choosing passive skills, summons and more. An idle game about killing hordes of enemies, becoming stronger, and exploring an unfolding storyline. A spin-off of Nomad Survival.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 2GB VRAM Graphics Cards. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 11 times in the 2 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 30 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.
It is cheaper than 66 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 91 percent. Among the games that feel like it, (the) Gnorp Apologue ($6.99, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats Swag and Sorcery ($12.99, scores 2).
More about Nomad Idle
5 of the 599 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2025 to August 2026.
HowLongToBeat players log 35 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 142, 4.1 times as much.
The drop-off
95% start to 26% finishA 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
What players say
first of all, this is a real idle game, not a "short incremental idler" you play for 6 hours and get 100% achievements for. the game is fantastic in what it does. everything is explained, there are help-symbols everywhere, so i can always look up how things work and what to do. 7 different classes, many spells, crafting, pets. i dont get the hate.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
finished in 280 hours, here is my two cents: The Good Overall this is fun idle game especially at the start with good music and graphics and with fun stuff happening on the screen. ➕ good idle game (balance etc.) in early hours / days ➕ I like the fact the stats/skills etc. are modifiable during gameplay so you can experiment when things get tough ➕ great music ➕ has audio-off when game not in focus feature (this...
The game is slow and pointless. The developers didn't even have the common sense to give it offline progress. You basically have to run it in the background, and it takes eternity to run itself. You really don't feel that your input on the game does anything. It's just a monotonous tasteless game that plays itself. I'm not pleased with it.
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Cite this score
Nomad Idle scores 14/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3042190/nomad-idleReviews 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 Sep 28, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.