Children of Morta
Worth it · Roguelike · 2019
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $21.99.
- Length
- 14.2h
- Value
- $1.55/hr
- Reviews
- 88% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 660, Radeon R7 370 or equivalent with 2 GB of video RAM, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Children of Morta is a story-driven action RPG game about an extraordinary family of heroes. Lead the Bergsons, with all their flaws and virtues, against the forthcoming Corruption. Will you be able to sacrifice everything to save the ones you care for?
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $2.19. That was September 2026. Its cuts run 70 percent off as a rule. There have been 73 in the 7 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 2 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 19 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 77 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Ember Knights ($19.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Heroes of Hammerwatch ($14.99, scores 70).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 7 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2024 to September 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 355 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 263 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 62 percent of the 1,358 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 14.2 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 28, 2.0 times as much.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 14.2 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
86% start to 5% 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
69 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Children of Morta's gameplay and design is not of consistent enough quality for me to recommend it. Small but frequent issues drag down the experience and make it a slog. The big problem is that every fight devolves into kiting. Enemies can be damage sponges at times, and elites will ignore stagger and crowd control effects making kiting all the more necessary. Abilities that would control or damage many enemies at...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Children of Morta scores 73/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/330020/children-of-mortaThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 13, price as of Sep 24.
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