Northmark: Hour of the Wolf
Fair · RPG · 2014
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 4.8h 4.8h to 100%
- Value
- $2.08/hr
- Reviews
- 82% of 359 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Embark on an adventure through the lands of Northmark and save your homeland from a conspiracy in this original card-based RPG.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, OpenGL compatible, 51 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 72 times in the 12 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 65 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 16 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 61 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 77 percent. Among the games that feel like it, SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech ($24.99, scores 61) beats it on value, while it beats Overdungeon ($7.49, scores 51).
The drop-off
37% start to 13% 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
What players say
I only played this because Rampage Knights is such a gem. aka get Rampage Knights it's awesome. And this game is ok, I enjoyed it. But it seems too easy and unfinished like the dev had way bigger plans and it all turned out 10 times more work than expected so they kept it at this. Mentions demons but I never saw them in the story so idk... they're playable on the quick battle mode tho. (recommendation is genuine...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
It's alarmingly short. It just kind of randomly ends. The combat design has core problems that it never solves. Card selection is a clunky interface. Leveling up is severely limited. Only physical cards are really worth investing in, meaning only two character classes are really worth taking. However. A lot of work went into this thing regardless. The art's nice. The writing isn't doing anything too interesting, but...
The concept and art style are truly amazing. However, the execution of the card combat is terrible. I got stuck when I went to find Adriana, or whatever the warrior's name is. At one point, her guard was automatically replenishing, and I only had healing cards left, even though my characters were already fully healed. I even uploaded a screenshot publicly. I decided to return the game; the combat made no sense. I...
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Cite this score
Northmark: Hour of the Wolf scores 53/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/307010/northmark-hour-of-the-wolfReviews 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 Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.