Unforgiving Trials: The Darkest Crusade

Unforgiving Trials: The Darkest Crusade

Skip · Roguelike · 2016

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The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 13, under the fair line, at $0.99.

Length
2.8h 9.9h to 100%
Value
$0.35/hr
Reviews
65% of 653 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

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

Holding it back
Reviews65% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach35K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$0.35/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 49 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

Embark on an epic adventure to save the lands. Form a party by selecting 4 different adventurers from a pool of over 12 unique classes. Battle your way through the cursed lands scaling the highest mountains and exploring the darkest dungeons. Face more than 30 unique challenging bosses in order to reach the capital of the kingdom.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, OpenGL 4.1 capable GPU, 696 MB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

74 discounts in the 10 years on record, a median of 51 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

It is cheaper than 98 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 91 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Hero Siege ($7.99, scores 19) and Realm of the Mad God Exalt (free, scores 61) both outscore it.

More about Unforgiving Trials: The Darkest Crusade

HowLongToBeat players log 2.8 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 10, 3.5 times as much.

What players say

Died 47 times in first room cat started meowing sarcastically. Put her on pause she still laughs. Now I play blindfolded so I won't see her contempt.
🍀 WinteraidRecommendedafter 5.6h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews
I am 32 years old. My ex-wife and I have a daughter together, and we adopted our son together. Both are now 4 years old. When we were going through our separation, I felt lost and unhappy. I was self-destructive. One day, I was so angry with everything spiraling out of control that I punched a concrete wall in a moment of overwhelming emotion. This resulted in breaking my fifth metacarpal in my right hand-the hand I...
ZubumafuRecommendedafter 3.3hDec 2023Read on Steam
⠀ʜᴀᴠᴇ ᴀ ʟᴏᴠᴇʟʏ ᴅᴀʏ<3 ⠀⠀⠀ɪᴛ ꜰᴇᴇʟꜱ ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛɪᴍᴇ ɪꜱ ᴘᴀꜱꜱɪɴɢ ꜱᴏ Qᴜɪᴄᴋʟʏ. ⠀⠀⠀ᴛʜᴇ ᴘᴀꜱꜱᴀɢᴇ ᴏꜰ ᴛɪᴍᴇ ᴅᴇᴘᴇɴᴅꜱ ᴇɴᴛɪʀᴇʟʏ ᴏɴ ᴡʜᴇʀᴇ ʏᴏᴜ'ʀᴇ ⠀⠀⠀ꜱᴛᴀɴᴅɪɴɢ. ⠀⠀⠀ʀᴇʟᴀᴛɪᴠɪᴛʏ ᴛʜᴇᴏʀʏ… ɪᴛ'ꜱ ꜱᴏ ʀᴏᴍᴀɴᴛɪᴄ. ⠀⠀⠀ʙᴜᴛ ɪᴛ'ꜱ ᴊᴜꜱᴛ ꜱᴏ ᴛʀᴀɢɪᴄ ᴛᴏᴏ. ⠀⠀⠀ᴋᴜʀɪꜱᴜ ᴍᴀᴋɪꜱᴇ
ManvyrRecommendedafter 5.6hJul 2023Read on Steam

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Unforgiving Trials: The Darkest Crusade scores 13/100 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/489220/unforgiving-trials-the-darkest-crusade
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Details

DeveloperAmaterasu Software
PublisherAmaterasu Software
GenreRoguelike
Released2016
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate