Blackthorn Arena: Reforged
Skip · Strategy · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 14, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Reviews
- 66% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 60% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 7 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 50% ($12.49)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 60% ($9.99)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 2 GB, GeForce GTX 660/Radeon HD 7870, 30 GB of storage. Windows only.
Re-experience the thrill and challenges of managing a Gladiator arena in this management/simulation game. With new content, new graphics, Quality of Life updates, and all DLCs packed into this new experience, this is how Blackthorn Arena was meant to be experienced.
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
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Strategy game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $9.99, set in June 2026. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 20 in the 2 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today's $9.99 at 60 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 82 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Dungeon Tycoon ($7.49, scores 42) and Stronghold Legends: Steam Edition ($14.99, scores 52) both outscore it.
This site sampled 597 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written November 2024 to September 2026. In its first 30 days on sale, 1 of 204 sampled reviews came from a refunder. Inside the two-hour refund window, 48 percent of the 122 reviews written there were positive, against 66 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
66% start to 2% 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
14 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 01:51 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Blackthorn Arena: Reforged scores 14/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is estimated at 8 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3168260/blackthorn-arena-reforgedReviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 2.
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