Rencounter
Skip · Roguelike · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 27, under the fair line, at $0.77.
- Length
- 12.6h
- Value
- $0.06/hr
- Reviews
- 71% of 375 positive
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Buy now or wait
It is 87% off today.
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Rencounter is a difficult, turn-based, RPG, roguelike game with a mysterious atmosphere. Help your squad survive while navigating through a network of tunnels and rooms. Distribute provisions and medicine to keep them alive.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 696 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
80 discounts in the 11 years on record, a median of 90 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today's $0.77 at 87 percent off still sits 31 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
It is cheaper than 76 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 81 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Roguebook ($1.74, scores 60) beats it on value, while it beats Dungeon Rushers ($14.99, scores 10).
The drop-off
6% start to 3% finishA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
This game is not for everyone. This is a challenging, turn based, dungeon crawling RPG. The game puts you on the bottom of a 10 level duneon. To win, you must escape. You work with 1-3 characters to clear rooms, gain loot and improve your characters so that you can tackle the next level of the dungeon. When you start the game, you won't get any tutorials or much in the way of help. However, the game isn't hard to...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I have a lot of things to say about Rencounter but I'm going to start out by being forthright; I really like Rencounter. I have played it on & off & on again. I feel I need to say however that, despite my seemingly limited number of hours, I have felt the change and growth over the time that it has gone up until now. It has gotten a lot better as in comparison to the early stages. I remember back in the day, the...
I like Recounter, but there are some significant issues that cause me to want to warn people away from it, even with as inexpensive as it is. Call it a skill issue, but the only way I can imagine easily completing the game is from playing and dying on easy mode over and over to build up stats on the last surviving character (who you get to use as-is on the next attempt) and to upgrade whatever gear you want to be...
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Cite this score
Rencounter scores 27/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/431810/rencounterReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.