Chasing the Dawn / CTD

Chasing the Dawn / CTD

Fair · Strategy · 2026

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $8.99. Buy it if you want it.

Reviews
99% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Price
$8.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
99%
111 reviews, as of Aug 5
Released
2026
Length + $/hr
No data
no length in our data yet

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce 930M, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.

Chasing the Dawn is a pixel-art roguelike strategy game. Enter the dungeon, use wit and luck to navigate dangers, and lead your characters deeper. Manage risks with items and runes, gather resources, and rebuild your village. Their fate is shaped by your every click.
Description from the Steam store page.

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

What we assumed
  • 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.
Raising the score
Value, est. length~$1.12/hr
Estimated: no length in our data yet
Reviews99% of 111 reviews, scored as 90%
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Holding it back
Length unknownNo verified $/hr
No length in our data yet, so the biggest driver can't be verified. A heavy dock until it is
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 52 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

The value story

The lowest price on record is $7.19, set in July 2026. It has gone on sale once in the 80 days tracked here, most recently in July 2026.

Value puts it in the top 6 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 95 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Magicraft ($11.99, scores 81) beats it on value, while it beats 60 Seconds! ($8.99, scores 62).

The drop-off

94% start to 2% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Chasing the Dawn / CTD scores 63/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) 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/3946120/chasing-the-dawn-ctd
Embed the live badge

Reviews 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 Aug 5, price as of Oct 1.

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Details

DeveloperWave Games
PublisherWave Games
GenreStrategy
Released2026
Achievements30