Minion Masters
Fair · RPG · 2019
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Free and middling. Worth a look if the genre is yours.
- Length
- 4.5h
- Price
- Free to play
- Reviews
- 89% positive
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia Geforce GT 240 or equivalent, minimum 512 MB of VRAM, 6 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
An addictive fast-paced hybrid of Card games & Tower-Defense. Play 1v1 - or bring a friend for 2v2 - and engage in epic online multiplayer battles full of innovative strategy and awesome plays! Collect 200+ cards with unique mechanics, all free!
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
On value it sits in the top 4 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 93 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, .Forty-Five (free, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Warhammer The Horus Heresy: Legions (scores 8).
Inside the two-hour refund window, 71 percent of the 201 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it. It carries the aggressive kind of in-app purchases, and the score already docks it for that.
4.5 hours to finish it, 108 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 24 times the campaign.
It is still busy. 310 players were in it at once at the last check, across 81 days of tracking. Free to start. Steam lists the aggressive monetization types on it: cosmetic and currency.
The drop-off
49% start to 6% 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
310 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
Although there are still some players, the game is basically on life support since the UI downgrade they did a few years back.
people only playing same meta decks, u see same cards every fight, no more individuell thoughts on decks.. game lately scks big time
Played about 200 hours total in this game from 2019-2026. The concept is brilliant and it has so much potential. The core game loop is a lot of fun and much more interactive than normal card games. I really, really wanted to see it succeed but as of now it's on life support with barely 200 players active on a good day. And I think that's because it's frustratingly pay to win. You NEED many legendary cards to be...
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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Minion Masters scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/489520/minion-mastersThe 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 17.
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