The Swords of Ditto: Mormo's Curse

The Swords of Ditto: Mormo's Curse

Skip · Roguelike · 2018

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 12, under the fair line, at $2.99.

Length
5.8h 26h to 100%
Value
$0.52/hr
Reviews
63% of 2,378 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
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Buy now or wait

It is 80% off today.

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.

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

Holding it back
Reviews63% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 64% after the small-sample adjustment
Reach350K+ 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
Value$0.52/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead That is today's sale price. Normally $2.58/hr
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds3 of 442 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

About the game

Now reimagined and expanded in the new Mormo's Curse update, The Swords of Ditto is a roguelite action RPG that creates a unique adventure for each new hero of legend in the relentless fight against the evil Mormo.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel HD 4000, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

The value story

It has been discounted 66 times in the 9 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 67 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $2.99 at 80 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.

It is pricier than 66 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 93 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Juicy Realm ($9.99, scores 69) and Hero Siege ($7.99, scores 19) both outscore it.

More about The Swords of Ditto: Mormo's Curse

The press liked it more than its buyers did, 74 against 63 percent.

3 of the 442 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 36 percent of the 436 reviews written there were positive, against 63 percent overall, and those are 24 percent of everything written about it.

HowLongToBeat players log 5.8 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 26, 4.5 times as much.

Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 5.8 hours it is short enough to finish on one.

The drop-off

80% start to 1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

It's a really good game, one of my favorite indie roguelites. I only wish some more of the bugs were fixed and they expanded it a little more with additional content. This game flew so far under the radar that I don't ever see that happening, nor a sequel which would be AWESOME. Oh well. I still revisit it from time to time. If you are unsure, just wait for a sale. It usually gets a huge discount. I originally...
RetroRecommendedafter 50hJun 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews
This game... its a hidden gem! it is perfect for Co-op play. It is lika a split screen version of "Zelda - a link from the past", that one also a roguelite.
Jimstein PeerlessRecommendedafter 1.8hFeb 2026Read on Steam
Alright, listen. I skimmed some of the other reviews to try and find out why this game still holds a "Mixed" rating on Steam, but there doesn't seem to be a consistent consensus on why, so I'm just gonna talk about it like those reviews don't exist, because this is a very enjoyable little game! Following in the vein of Adventure Time: Secret of The Nameless Kingdom, The Swords of Ditto seeks to combine classic...
Space VixenRecommendedafter 34hJan 2026Read on Steam

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

Cite this score

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The Swords of Ditto: Mormo's Curse scores 12/100 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/619780/the-swords-of-ditto-mormo-s-curse
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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 Sep 26, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players-11
Critics74
Players63
Metacritic critics · 2,378 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

Developeronebitbeyond
PublisherDevolver Digital
GenreRoguelike
Released2018
Players350Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements20