Dungeon Rats
Skip · RPG · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 49, under the fair line, at $7.99.
- Length
- 12.5h 26.3h to 100%
- Value
- $0.64/hr
- Reviews
- 77% of 724 positive
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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
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About the game
A turn-based, party-based RPG set in the Age of Decadence world and focused on squad level tactical combat. Fight your way out of prison mine or die trying.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 3 GB of memory, Nvidia Geforce GTS 250 / Radeon HD 4770 (1Gb) or better, 1.5 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
78 discounts in the 10 years on record, a median of 60 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 20 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 65 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Colony Ship: A Post-Earth Role Playing Game ($39.99, scores 59) beats it on value, while it beats The Age of Decadence ($14.99, scores 44).
More about Dungeon Rats
Steam's global achievement data puts about 5 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 12.5-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. None of the 284 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.
The main story runs 12.5 hours. Doing everything runs 26, 2.1 times as long.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 12.5 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
75% start to 5% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
What players say
The game might not look like much but there is a deep combat quality in the encounters. The fights are carefully handcrafted, leading the played to use more and more of the various combat tools available. While normal RPGs are either hard at the start or hard at the end, this game provides a challenge at every stage. On the negative side it can't be overstated how frustrating the RNG mechanics in this game are, even...
2 more reviews, 2 not recommended
Wanted to like the game because I love the aesthetic, but it's just not very favorable to the player even on lower difficulties. Have to play basically perfect and get good rng to survive.
next to no story. idiotic combat, very poor graphics, and very stupid inventory 'management' or lack thereof!! whats wrong with click and drag to the chest?! not this highlite.. click transfer 'method'.. utter stupidity.. then if you accidentally click take all.. you gotta do it all over again! pathetic. the premise of the game (to make it 'difficult'), is that the players characters maintain the same HP (and other...
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Cite this score
Dungeon Rats scores 49/100 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/531930/dungeon-ratsReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.