Alder's Blood: Definitive Edition
Skip · Roguelike · 2020
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 8, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 18.6h 41.6h to 100%
- Value
- $1.07/hr
- Reviews
- 60% of 260 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 5 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
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About the game
Alder's Blood is a tactical strategy game with stealth-based combat, RPG elements, crafting, resources gathering, and management, exploration, and a rich storyline. Set in a grim world, where mankind killed their God and is facing extinction.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, GeForce 8800GTX with 512MB of memory or equivalent, 2.2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 44 times in the 7 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 70 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 94 percent. On the same math Darkest Dungeon® II ($12.39, scores 37) and Iratus: Lord of the Dead ($2.99, scores 66) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about Alder's Blood: Definitive Edition
This site sampled 209 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to July 2026.
HowLongToBeat players log 18.6 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 42, 2.2 times as much.
The drop-off
86% 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
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2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Most of the recomendattion are right, i mean, the story is awesome, the estethics and lovecraftian aura and mystery is pretty impresive, even the mechanics you can enjoy it, but the many bugs, the corrupted save files, the hunters not dying, making glitch with charms, no penaltys sometimes. Also, when in late game you can actually instakill every enemy while stealth and ripped with the darkness, at the same time...
The game looks good, and the Lovecraftian wild west vibes are great, but the UI is muddled, whether or not bats indicate an actual enemy or just scenery is inconsistent, and the whole experience is a buggy mess. Sometimes it's just animations not triggering correctly, but other times it's an inability to use a weapon even when loaded, and at full stamina. Sometimes buttons just don't work. The experience is really...
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Alder's Blood: Definitive Edition scores 8/100 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/820020/alder-s-blood-definitive-editionReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.