Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem
Skip · RPG · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $3.99.
- Length
- 17.3h
- Value
- $0.23/hr
- Reviews
- 56% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 47% over the last 30 days against 56% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti / AMD Radeon HD 6850, 18 GB of storage. Windows only.
Carve your path in this Hack’n’Slash free from class boundaries. Purify a world shattered by corruption, and uncover the grim secrets and forgotten horrors lurking in the shadows of this forsaken land as you rise in Power. Your Inner aspect beckons—will you answer?
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.99, set in August 2026. It has been discounted 70 times in the 11 years tracked here, typically at 70 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today's $3.99 at 80 percent off still sits 101 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 97 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Last Epoch ($34.99, scores 38) and The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing II ($14.99, scores 23) both outscore it.
Players rate it 56 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 47 percent. Something recent has soured the room. 10 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2024 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 37 percent of the 3,943 reviews written there were positive, against 56 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 17.3 hours; clearing it takes 51, which is 3.0 times the campaign.
The drop-off
82% start to <1% 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
30 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
Scam game and they have the audacity to make another after screwing over people who purchased the first one.
Be Wary! They abandonded this Game and i felt scammed. Now they are making Wolcen 2. If you take a look of the trailer of wolcen 2. It looks the same, maybe a reskin. some people say they are only making the games for funding of a state programm, and to be honest, i believe this rumors.
I never planned on posting a review on this game...the player count on release was encouraging and I even gifted this one to a few friends. That said: This is not not a game that will get any better as the Dev team has abandoned it. If in doubt, just Google it and watch a build guide or new player breakdown - you will know in a few minutes if this is what you're looking for to scratch the ARPG itch. Where to...
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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Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem scores 2/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/424370/wolcen-lords-of-mayhemThe 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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