Dwarfs!?

Dwarfs!?

Skip · Strategy · 2011

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Under the fair line today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 80% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$9.99Skip

Typical seasonal cut

$1.9980% offFair

Cost per hour▼
$2.27/hr
Reviews▼
78% of 1,081
Genre rank
Top 21% Strategy

Holding it back: Reviews, Cost per hour

Why
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at $1.99 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
4.4h
To 100%
16.7h 3.8x the story
Achievements
29

Price and sales

Sales
73 on record
Typical cut
75% off
Steam low
$1.99 August 2018
Sale every
48d last October 2026
All-time low $0.41 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
0 now
Cheaper than
29% of its genre
Better reviewed
71% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

27% start to 4% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

It has been discounted 73 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Against its own genre its score lands in the top 21 percent. It is pricier than 71 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 71 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Kingdom: Classic (free, scores 81) beats it on value, while it beats Gnomoria ($14.99, scores 30).

More about Dwarfs!?

Inside the two-hour refund window, 59 percent of the 166 reviews written there were positive, against 78 percent overall, and those are 26 percent of everything written about it.

4.4 hours to finish it, 17 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.8 times the campaign.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Last discount ended 31 days ago.

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Holding it back
Cost per hour$2.27/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones. Scored as 77% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 176 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

I bought this game back in 2012, really enjoyed it. Completely forgot about it, then came back to it recently while I was bored scrolling through my games library. Still holds up today, super duper fun! I wish there were more challenge levels, but even the arcade mode has pretty much unlimited replayability.
Undead UnicornRecommendedafter 9.5hSep 2025Read on Steam
2 more reviews
Pretty fun Arcade-y Game if you happen to be in the Mood for it. While the Game has not Much to offer, it can still bring you a Good time if your down. Problematic are thou, Dwarfs are pretty dang Dumb, and will find a way into water sources that you found (or Lava) quite quickly, condeming them can be quite a Hassle too, considering that there is ALWAYS One water Source near your base, which means you cannot really...
LightgazerRecommendedafter 15h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
Little Nostalgia Game for Yogscast Watchers. Takes only a few hours to 100% if you're into that.
Hot Dog WaterRecommendedafter 11hMar 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

Dig! Dig! Dig! Manage the small underground Dwarf base and make it as rich as possible before they meet their inevitable doom. Purchase before May 11th and save!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, DirectX9-compatible, 246 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Dwarfs!? scores 46/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/35480/dwarfs
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Reviews 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 Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Details

DeveloperPower of 2
PublisherTripwire Interactive
GenreStrategy
Released2011
Players150Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements29