Nowhere Prophet
Skip · Roguelike · 2019
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 26, under the fair line, at $24.99.
- Length
- 5.8h
- Value
- $4.31/hr
- Reviews
- 71% of 1,175 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
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
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
About the game
Prepare your decks and go on a pilgrimage through the wasteland! Nowhere Prophet is a unique single-player card game. Travel across randomly generated maps and lead your followers in deep tactical combat. Discover new cards and build your deck as you explore this strange, broken world.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
Across all 57 discounts in the 7 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 81 percent. Trials of Fire ($19.99, scores 64) outscores it, and so does Dice & Fold ($12.99, scores 49). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Nowhere Prophet
This site sampled 362 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 5.8 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
46% start to 2% 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
What players say
Having sunk a lot of hours into other deckbuilding roguelikes, hearthstone and MTG, this game is good but has one or two big issues I can't get over. Basically, enemy cards in hand is hidden information. In games with hidden information like Hearthstone and MTG, you still usually can intuit what deck they are playing and play around what you think they might be doing. You just can't in this. Yeah sure, there are...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
This is a good, or even great deckbuilder severely hurt by RNG in its roguelike mechanics causing major balance issues. The music, art, worldbuilding, and story are all good, but the card combos are too difficult to pull off due to the roguelike mechanics. Balancing both an Ixion / Frostpunk style encounter and survival resource management system and the deckbuilding game at the same time is certainly fun and tense...
one of the best games i've played. So underrated because of the hard difficulty, which actually makes the game much more addictive and realistic. I mean, The world is about you being sacrificed or sacrificing.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Nowhere Prophet scores 26/100 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/681730/nowhere-prophetReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.