Sacrifice
Fair · Other · 2009
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $24.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 9.2h 31h to 100%
- Value
- $2.72/hr
- Reviews
- 92% of 711 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $15.69 or less.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $19.99 (20% off). Calls like this were right 89% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
Sacrifice is the acclaimed real-time strategy game that focuses on combat instead of resource gathering. The only two resources you'll need to worry about are mana and souls. Need more units? Capture the souls of your enemy. Cast spells of awesome power.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 61 MB of memory, DirectX, 645 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
78 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 7 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 85 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. On the same math Overlord II ($9.99, scores 79) and Age of Mythology: Extended Edition ($29.99, scores 84) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about Sacrifice
1 of the 301 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 81 percent of the 177 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 27 percent of everything written about it.
9.2 hours to finish it, 31 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.4 times the campaign.
Players
- Players online
- 2 when we last checked, on Oct 4, 08:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
+Unique blend of third-person action game and real-time strategy, that no other game has managed to achieve to this day +Stylized art direction aged far more gracefully than most of its contemporaries +Design of characters and creatures makes you feel like you're in the middle of a hallucinogenic trip. +5 different campaigns for the price of one, each with unique missions, spells and creature roosters. You can even...
2 more reviews
been playing this game for 20 years, and probably will play it as long as it runs
This is one of the best single player campaigns ever made. This is the single best attempt at combining 3rd person RPG with RTS. It is pure joy with a ton of replayability. The voice acting is glorious.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Sacrifice scores 60/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/38440/sacrificeReviews 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 Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.