Grim Nights
Worth it · Strategy · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $2.99.
- Length
- 8h
- Value
- $0.37/hr
- Reviews
- 88% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Ati mobility radeon HD 5000, 143 MB of storage. Windows only.
Your village must survive for 13 days! Gather resources, expand, explore the underground for riches, and train soldiers to defend against hordes of the undead.
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
The value story
May 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $0.59. 54 discounts in the 8 years on record. They run about 33 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 79 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Kingdom: Classic (free, scores 81) beats it on value, while it beats Until We Die ($16.99, scores 12).
This site sampled 426 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 74 percent of the 149 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 8 hours; clearing it takes 40, which is 5.0 times the campaign.
The drop-off
76% 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
Players
4 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 16:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Good little game, can make a surprising amount of time disappear when you get into it. Runs on fairly lightweight hardware.
Grim Nights, developed and published by Edym Pixels, is a small-scale strategy game that manages to feel far more intense than its simple presentation suggests. At a glance, it looks like a straightforward pixel-art colony builder, but once it begins, it quickly reveals itself as a tightly wound survival experience built around pressure, planning, and constant trade-offs. It doesn't rely on complexity or scale to...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Cite this score
Grim Nights scores 75/100 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/947300/grim-nightsReviews 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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