One Step From Eden

One Step From Eden

Worth it · Roguelike · 2020

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $19.99.

Length
8.1h
Value
$2.47/hr
Reviews
93% positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
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Length
8.1h
typical playtime (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
49h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$2.47
price ÷ typical playtime
Price
$19.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
93%
7,663 reviews, as of Sep 26
Metacritic
82
critic score
Players
350K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2020

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

Build a powerful deck, cast spells on the fly, battle evolving enemies, find game-changing artifacts, make friends or make enemies, just make it to Eden.
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
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
For context
Value$2.47/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
Length8.1 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
Refunds14 of 644 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 $7.99, set in May 2023. It has been discounted 44 times in the 7 years tracked here, typically at 60 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales.

On value it sits in the top 11 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 81 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Overdungeon ($14.99, scores 51) and Hand of Fate ($19.99, scores 74).

The press gave it 82; the people who bought it give it 93 percent. An 11-point gap in the buyer's favour.

This site sampled 644 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 14 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 75 percent of the 591 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.

HowLongToBeat players log 8.1 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 49, 6.0 times as much.

Players

10 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 23:46 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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One Step From Eden scores 79/100 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/960690/one-step-from-eden
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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 26, price as of Oct 1.

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Critics vs players+11
Critics
82
Players
93
Critics and players agree on this one.
Metacritic critics · 7,663 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperThomas Moon Kang
PublisherBalor Games
GenreRoguelike
Released2020