Gnomes
Worth it · Roguelike · 2025
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.99, at or past its typical seasonal cut of 20%. The Autumn Sale runs to Oct 8.
- Length
- 9.2h
- Value
- $0.54/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 50% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 5 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 20% ($7.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 50% ($4.99)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 41 MB of storage. Windows only.
Gnomes is a turn-based tower defense with deep roguelike progression, set in ever-expanding, procedurally generated biomes. Build, farm and defend your village as you push deeper into goblin-infested territory. Unlock powerful upgrades and craft your environment to survive the endless goblin horde
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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $3.99, set in June 2026. Its cuts run 30 percent off as a rule. There have been 17 in the 1 year tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today's $4.99 at 50 percent off still sits 25 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
On value it sits in the top 13 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 65 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Dwarf Fortress ($29.99, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats Dwarfs!? ($9.99, scores 46).
This site sampled 386 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 5 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 88 percent of the 345 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 20 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
63% 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
22 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 18:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
7/10 pretty good tower defence and doesn't take too long to finish a level., that is unless you're on endless and you have to spend ages slowly building a kill maze. There is an rng problem though, in that you can only make a build from what you get in the shop and some items/builds are just bad, especially depending on the map you're playing. So you are fighting rng to get what you need/want. More content would...
I do like this game, but it doesn't quite scratch the same itch as other roguelikes. I think because there are no items to unlock... you're just unlocking new zones and groups of gnomes. And there's no real indication in game for what you need to do in order to unlock those things either... it just kinda happens after you've finished a run, sometimes. I like having goals and knowing what I need to do to unlock...
This game feels like a hidden gem for TD. There is clearly a lot of love and thought crafted into it. It's clever, and it's challenging. If you have played TD and are looking for that itch to be scratched this one is it. I may update my review to add more details and articulate why but right now all I can say is that it's unforgiving but fair and worth checking out if you actually want to have to think about each...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Cite this score
Gnomes scores 78/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3133060/gnomesReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 2.
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