Fictorum

Fictorum

Skip · Roguelike · 2017

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The verdict

SKIP IT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

It scores 47, under the fair line, at $9.99.

Cost per hour
$2.44/hr
Reviews▼
79% of 1,165
Critics
64 players 15 higher
Genre rank
Top 53% Roguelike

Holding it back: Reviews, Reach

Why
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Time and effort

Typical playtime
4.1h
Achievements
67

Price and sales

Sales
49 on record
Typical cut
75% off
Steam low
$2.49 April 2021
Sale every
57d last October 2026
Lowest now $2.49 at GOGall-time low $1.00 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
2 now
Cheaper than
51% of its genre
Better reviewed
44% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

32% start to <1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

A 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

The value story

The value story

It has been discounted 49 times in the 9 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Among the games that feel like it, Full Mojo Rampage ($12.99, scores 60) beats it on value, while it beats What the Fog ($4.99, scores 36).

More about Fictorum

Critics scored it 64. Players sit 15 points higher at 79 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.

This site sampled 394 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 42 percent of the 266 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 26 percent of everything written about it.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $2.49 (75% off). Predictions like this were right 92% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Holding it back
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones. Scored as 78% after the small-sample adjustment
Reach150K+ 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
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 394 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

What players say

I am glad i got it on a cheap price... It ain't much... it's a boring game Not Optimized for power scalling Boring Combat Boring World and Buildings design Boring World Map Boring Destrution, which is not even immpressive at all Boring but Annoying Enemies Type... This game is just Half Baked, if you played Red Faction series, Just Cause series... Then you don't need to spend money n time on this.
JFF44Not recommendedafter 18hAug 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Pretty fun game until you realize there isn't really a sandbox mode as every mode has the inquisition constantly locking you out of the map like some cheap battle royal. Meaning this is purely a boss rush "roguelite". Found this while looking for games with cool magic systems... It looked like a cool game with a lot of depth but once I noticed it's just another forced boss rush game it instantly felt insanely...
OrigamiNot recommendedafter 3.2hNov 2025Read on Steam
My perspective as a father with a kid and 2 Jobs. Look this game isn't perfect, but it is extremely fun. Especially when you can play it in short sessions (or long ones if your kid and wife are asleep) and you can get a lot out of those sessions if you are just playing the game. Does the game do a good job at explaining all of its systems? No. Are there clear and really specific ways to exploit the games systems to...
DatBoiT$Recommendedafter 12hJun 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

Fictorum is an action RPG featuring destructible environments, a procedural node-based world map, and dynamic magic shaping.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GTX 760 or equivalent, 14 GB of storage. Windows only.

Cite this score

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Fictorum scores 47/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/503620/fictorum
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Reviews 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 Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+15
Critics64
Players79
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 1,165 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperScraping Bottom Games
PublisherScraping Bottom Games
GenreRoguelike
Released2017
Players150Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements67