Swords 'n Magic and Stuff

Swords 'n Magic and Stuff

Worth it · Multiplayer · 2020 · Early Access

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $24.99.

Length
30h
Value
$0.83/hr
Reviews
93% positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
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Length
30h
typical playtime (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
135h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$0.83
price ÷ typical playtime
Price
$24.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
93%
1,195 reviews, as of Sep 27
Players
350K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2020

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Geforce GTX 1070, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.

Grab your friends and set out for adventure in this cozy, multiplayer, open world RPG! Explore, quest and craft your way through a densely packed open world. Level up 6 different classes and buy land to build and decorate your home to settle down in this medieval fantasy world.
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
Reviews93% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 92% after the small-sample adjustment
Holding it back
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
Early accessUnfinished
Still in development, a small confidence discount until 1.0
For context
Value$0.83/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
Length30 hours
Typical playtime on HowLongToBeat. Endless games score on players, so hours stay out of it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds2 of 367 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

The lowest price on record is $9.99, set in December 2025. It has been discounted 28 times in the 6 years tracked here, typically at 30 percent off, with about 12 weeks between sales.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 4 percent on value. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Slime Rancher 2 ($29.99, scores 81) beats it on value, while it beats Ratty Catty ($14.99, scores 11).

2 of the 367 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2020 to August 2026.

HowLongToBeat players log 30 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 135, 4.5 times as much.

The drop-off

11% 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

5 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 01:05 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

*Update after almost 70 hours in-game* I can't stop playing SnM&S and that is really a good thing in my book. You can spend hours just working on a single skill if you want to, and even though I think I am reaching the latter part of the current content, I still have a ton of stuff I can work on so I get decent variety. Leveling up skills after they reach about level 10 starts to be a bit of a grind but I intend to...
saltydogitronRecommendedafter 68hMay 2026early accessRead on Steam
Super fun cozy game that keeps surprising me! Just when I think I've seen it all a whole new area opens up. Highly recommend and can't wait to see what they come up with next! My wife and I have been enjoying our time!
AriGonzoRecommendedafter 93hMay 2026early accessRead on Steam
combat is boring, most quests are fetch quests and the combat quests are no better. There is no fast travel and it takes forever to get anywhere even after you have a horse. Boring empty game overall.
beans275Not recommendedafter 14hJun 2026early accessRead on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Swords 'n Magic and Stuff scores 73/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/810040/swords-n-magic-and-stuff
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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 27, price as of Oct 1.

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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperKindred Games
PublisherKindred Games
GenreMultiplayer
Released2020
Achievements15