Blood Card
Skip · Roguelike · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 49, under the fair line, at $14.99.
- Length
- 15.5h 33h to 100%
- Value
- $0.97/hr
- Reviews
- 81% of 729 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
This card game combines elements of roguelike and deckbuilding. During the game, you shall strive ahead, gathering cards to build a unique deck and use it to defeat the enemies getting in your way. You will have to choose between escaping or try to defeat Death, who is relentlessly pursuing you.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 512 MB of memory, 297 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
61 discounts in the 8 years on record, a median of 70 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 65 percent of its genre. On the same math Overdungeon ($7.49, scores 51) and Iris and the Giant ($17.99, scores 64) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about Blood Card
None of the 313 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to July 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 51 percent of the 119 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 15.5 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 33, 2.1 times as much.
The drop-off
68% start to 44% finishA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
Is it as good as Slay the Spire? No Is it trying to be Slay the Spire? Not at all Is it at times very unbalanced with very broken combos? Yes and that's part of the fun. Is it worth the full price? Maybe, I'd rank this as one of the top 5 roguelike deckbuilders. (more info on those at the bottom) Blood Card 1 is an interesting and well executed roguelike deckbuilder with more personality than most and mechanics that...
2 more reviews
Charming pixel art, interesting mechanics, great atmosphere, and a genuinely fun deck-builder. If you can grab it on sale for the price of a coffee, you really can't go wrong. Cards serve as your health - you die the moment you run out - but the game gives you several mechanics to avoid that. Unlike most deck-builders, you don't choose branching paths on a map. Instead, you have a set number of steps and can decide...
I think this game is a classic for card battlers. Really good variety. If you are a card battler type, and wondering if you should buy. Just buy it. You won't regret it.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Blood Card scores 49/100 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/930780/blood-cardReviews 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 Oct 1, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.