Son of a Witch
Fair · Roguelike · 2018
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $23.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 2.9h 480h to 100%
- Value
- $8.27/hr
- Reviews
- 86% of 438 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
Action roguelike for 1-4 players with cute graphics and deep game mechanics. Combine dozens of different weapons, magic items, potions and spells with unique effects to beat 8 enemy factions and 28 bosses. Can you find the ancient goblin artifact at the end of the dungeon?
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 512MB Video RAM, OpenGL 1.1+, 604 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
103 discounts in the 10 years on record, a median of 60 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 38 percent on value. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 63 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Lost Castle / 失落城堡 ($9.99, scores 69) beats it on value, while it beats Bravery and Greed ($19.99, scores 43).
More about Son of a Witch
HowLongToBeat players log 2.9 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 480, 166 times as much.
At 2.9 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
80% start to 5% finishA 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
Players
- Players online
- 5 when we last checked, on Oct 12, 21:51 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
There are better games like this in the same vein... Rampage Knights or Lost Castle as examples. A few things about this game seems to be completely broken. Using a spell consumes all your mana, even if you have 100 mana, it just all goes away in one casting. The enemies and bosses aren't varied, bosses are just the same giant creature with same attacks but different skins. Managing and navigating the inventory is...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
The art style is cute, and the game has a lot of potential to be fun with some interesting designs, but I'm afraid the bad outweighs the good. Most fun I had with this game was cheating at it. It's short when you can actually complete it, but rife with problems, poor balancing, disconnected randomization that makes half the items you can pick up worthless, non-existent AI pathing, and debuffs that will almost...
This game was my introduction to roguelkes. So happy to have stumbled across this game, originally on my switch, and now on PC. Have played countless of hours on this game. Great game would recommend to anyone!
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Son of a Witch scores 58/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/539400/son-of-a-witchReviews 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.