Eador. Imperium

Eador. Imperium

Skip · RPG · 2017

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The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 27, under the fair line, at $19.99.

Reviews
75% of 1,266 positive
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Buy now or wait

Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $4.99 (75% off). Calls like this were right 86% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.

Discounted in 7 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

What we assumed
  • How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical RPG game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
Raising the score
Engagement1% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value, est. length~$2.50/hr
Estimated: no length in our data yet
Reviews75% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
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
Refunds3 of 214 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

About the game

Hire heroes, build an army, prevail in battles and try to keep your empire intact in the face of grave danger. Eador. Imperium is a new chapter in Eador series, known for its unique blend of grand strategy, turn-based tactics and RPG elements.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, GeForce 7300/Radeon 9200, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

Across all 51 discounts in the 10 years tracked, the median cut is 65 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Thea 2: The Shattering ($24.99, scores 51) beats it on value, while it beats Blackguards ($0.99, scores 18).

More about Eador. Imperium

Steam's global achievement data puts about 1 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. Of the 214 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 32 percent of the 174 reviews written there were positive, against 75 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

68% start to 1% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements

No data upstream: length (HowLongToBeat), critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Eador. Imperium scores 27/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 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/477730/eador-imperium
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 Sep 26, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperSnowbird Games
PublisherSnowbird Games
GenreRPG
Released2017
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements32