Ironcast
Skip · Roguelike · 2015
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 29, under the fair line, at $14.99.
- Length
- 8.6h
- Value
- $1.74/hr
- Reviews
- 72% positive
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely between Oct 7 and Oct 20, at about $2.99 (80% off). Calls like this were right 78% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks. Its own discounts have started about 49 days apart.
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 80% ($2.99)
- Last discount ended
- 20 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, AMD Radeon X850 XT, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Puzzlequest meets FTL in this Steampunk Victorian era roguelite.
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
November 2018 is where it bottomed out, at $2.99. Its cuts run 80 percent off as a rule. There have been 67 in the 12 years tracked, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 66 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 79 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. You Must Build A Boat ($4.99, scores 56) and Into the Breach ($14.99, scores 86) both outscore it.
HowLongToBeat players log 8.6 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 39, 4.5 times as much.
The drop-off
77% start to 17% 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
the puzzles are far too random to plan any strategy. your completely at the mercy of the RNG, which it has none. Its a bad game. don't waste the money, i wish i didn't
Pretty good game! However at this time I can't support a dev that has acknowledged a bug regarding his background telemetry job failing and causing the game to pause every 5 seconds, forcing the community to come up with an unofficial patch for it. May change my review someday if he decides to fix it and make telemetry optional, but until that happens, I won't support developers like this.
I had a good time and finally beat the last enemy in about 27 hrs. It is not an easy game. (I read a guide before my second earnest attempt and -lo and behold- there are actually a few strategies that work - but many that do not). The RNG is sometimes gruesome, but it DOES go bouth ways. The end is sadly a bit lackluster.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Ironcast scores 29/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/327670/ironcastReviews 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 1.
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