Ash of Gods: Redemption

Ash of Gods: Redemption

Skip · RPG · 2018

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 35, under the fair line, at $24.99.

Length
21h
Value
$1.19/hr
Reviews
74% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
21h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
31.7h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$1.19
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$24.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
74%
3,475 reviews, as of Sep 26
Metacritic
65
critic score
Players
350K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2018

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Nvidia 9xxx / ATI 2xxx, 5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

Ash of Gods: Redemption is a turn-based RPG that combines tactical combat, CCG elements, and a constantly evolving story in which no one is safe from death, including the main characters.
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Raising the score
Value$1.19/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Holding it back
Reviews74% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Length21 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach350K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds6 of 782 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

The value story

It has never been cheaper than $2.49. That was June 2024. 93 discounts in the 9 years on record. They run about 70 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 40 percent on value. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark ($29.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats Torment: Tides of Numenera ($34.99, scores 27).

65 from critics against 74 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.

This site sampled 782 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 6 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 46 percent of the 280 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

70% 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

Players

7 players online when we last checked, on Sep 25, 23:48 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

Disappointed is the word I'd use to describe my feeling playing this game, and the best way I can describe this game is it's a pizza cutter; all edge and no point. It has a beautiful art style reminiscent of Banner Saga, but that's honestly the best thing going for it. The combat lacks the depth of strategy in that series, and feels very unrewarding and clunky. the characters are needlessly edgy and trying too hard...
WyrmtongueNot recommendedafter 5.0hJun 2026Read on Steam
Score: 6.5 / 10 Ash of Gods: Redemption possesses elements I genuinely like, contrasted by issues that ultimately led me to abandon my playthrough. At times I could see the foundation of something much stronger underneath it all, but the positives could not compensate for larger design issues that drained by desire to play. The world, presentation, and tone all seem on par with the Banner Saga initially, and the...
paulhongopaNot recommendedafter 1.4hMay 2026Read on Steam
The cartography is spectacular and detailed, the combat is simple yet satisfying, leveling up my characters and keeping them alive is a good feeling, the dialogue is good but sometimes feels rushed or to many sentences in one paragraph-kinda like this. The style and colours of the maps and characters is pleasing to the eye-I've only just started and am about 13 hours in. So far there is a bunch of history and lore...
A Steam playerRecommendedafter 14hJun 2026Read on Steam

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

Cite this score

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Ash of Gods: Redemption scores 35/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/691690/ash-of-gods-redemption
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Reviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.

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Critics vs players+9
Critics
65
Players
74
Critics and players agree on this one.
Metacritic critics · 3,475 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperAurumDust
PublisherAurumDust
GenreRPG
Released2018
Achievements50