Monsters' Den: Book of Dread
Worth it · Roguelike · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.99.
- Length
- 6.2h 12.2h to 100%
- Value
- $0.80/hr
- Reviews
- 92% of 294 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
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
About the game
Enter the Monsters' Den, a place of endless adventure, battle and reward! Lead your party of four heroes through each level of the ever-changing dungeon, fighting in turn-based battles and hunting for that elusive rare loot. The web-game classic comes to Steam!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Support for Pixel Shader version 2.x or above, 102 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
59 discounts in the 10 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 19 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 82 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 78 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Rift Wizard ($14.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats Darkest Dungeon® II ($12.39, scores 37).
The drop-off
36% start to 2% 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
What players say
A well designed, graphically simple, and mathematically elegant good time. First time players should probably try the easier settings until they understand some of the patterns.
2 more reviews
Slightly more grind than some may like, but there are several interacting, distinct choices for each character class for how one (slowly) builds the character. More depth than I expected.
SHORT REVIEW This game is a relatively simple tactical dungeon crawler. I believe this was a development of an early browser based game featuring updated graphics, refined systems, and multiple game play modes designed for long-term replay ability. The emphasis is on a simple but compelling game play loop focussed on tactical battles and incremental character progression. PLOT: The plot is pretty minimal to be...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Monsters' Den: Book of Dread scores 69/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/502230/monsters-den-book-of-dreadReviews 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.