Realm Grinder
Fair · RPG · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Free and middling. Worth a look if the genre is yours.
- Length
- 90.3h
- Price
- Free to play
- Reviews
- 87% positive
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, GTX 400 Series or Better. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Grow your realm, build alliances, and explore one of the deepest idle RPGs ever!
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
Value puts it in the top 7 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 89 percent of its genre. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Mr.Mine (free, scores 77) and Soda Dungeon 2 (free, scores 84) both outscore it.
Finishing takes 90.3 hours; clearing it takes 1672, which is 19 times the campaign.
9 years after release it still had 595 people in it at once.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
It is still busy. 595 players were in it at once at the last check, across 81 days of tracking. Free to start. It takes its money later, through boost and currency.
The drop-off
90% start to 5% 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
595 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
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Realm Grinder scores 62/100 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/610080/realm-grinderThe 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 14.
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