Chronos: Before the Ashes
Skip · Action · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 11, under the fair line, at $29.99.
- Length
- 8.1h 15.6h to 100%
- Value
- $3.70/hr
- Reviews
- 64% of 887 positive
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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
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About the game
Chronos: Before the Ashes is an atmospheric RPG that chronicles a hero’s lifelong quest to save their homeland from a great evil.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 660 / Radeon R7 370 with 2 GB VRAM, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 39 times in the 6 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 89 percent. On the same math REMNANT II® ($49.99, scores 64) and Clash: Artifacts of Chaos ($19.99, scores 66) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about Chronos: Before the Ashes
77 on Metacritic, 64 percent from players. A gap this way round is usually launch damage or a slow decline.
Steam's global achievement data puts 24 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 516 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 8 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2020 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,362 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 562 have a larger share.
The drop-off
85% start to 24% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
What players say
It was OK. Straight up 5/10. Middle of the road. Decent. Nothing spectacular. Passable. Not bad. Run-of-the-mill. The game itself is quite easy, slow paced, figure-out-the-trick-and-stun-lock-all-enemies-until-you-win. I would not call this a souls-like at all. I didn't experience any souls mechanic whatsoever. The fact that 3 of the achievements just don't exist in this game is pretty asinine. However, I still...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
If you can, try playing this before Remnant or Remnant 2, as this is the prequel to those games. It is a bit janky, but it is pretty fun. It isn't the longest game in the world, but it is pretty jam packed. The final boss has a pretty interesting gimmick too. The other bosses are good and not too hard, but pretty fun. I'd recommend getting this game if it's on sale. $30 can be a bit pricy, but I picked it up for...
It's not for me. Few reasons why: - Not smooth playability, letters and animations seem broken or are too slow, a bit unpolished. - The fighting is not satisfying at all, the timing to parry is odd. - Puzzlewise it is too linear - Last and most importantly, you cannot custom control or assign new buttons to actions preset by default (it comes with RB and RL as attack and heavy attack i.e. this is nuts)
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Chronos: Before the Ashes scores 11/100 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/967390/chronos-before-the-ashesReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.