Gordian Quest
Worth it · Roguelike · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99.
- Length
- 19.7h
- Value
- $1.01/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Next sale
- Autumn Sale, Oct 1 to 8
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 55% ($8.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 65% ($6.99)
- Last discount ended
- 2 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 1Gb Video Memory, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
An epic deckbuilding RPG inspired by old-school classics like Ultima and D&D, using modern gaming concepts like roguelite elements and turnbased strategic combat. Lead and nurture parties of heroes. Forge bonds and discover new skills among them. Guide them to unravel the curses laid upon the lands.
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
The lowest price on record is $5.99, set in August 2026. 58 discounts in the 7 years on record. They run about 40 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 2 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 22 percent on value. It is pricier than 81 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 76 percent. Among the games that feel like it, LONESTAR ($5.19, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Across the Obelisk ($19.99, scores 56).
11 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 75 percent of the 304 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 19.7 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 53, 2.7 times as much.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
The drop-off
39% start to <1% 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
About 48 players at once, as of Sep 24.
Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
just kind of a lot of interesting concepts that don't come together for me and plastered on generic story that does nothing for me. the little mini games like the campfire and exploration mini game feel really lacking and dull. the game would be better off without them. there some cool cards and what not but surrounded by bloat that just takes me out of it. if this card system and battler was more in the form of a...
So close, yet so far. This game has all of the features that I love, but it just doesn't deliver on accessibility. It has an option to disable screen shake, which is great, and is basically mandatory for modern games. It also has an option to disable the intense zoom on an enemy when you kill them, which is good because that sudden zoom is nauseating. But for some reason, there's a small zoom that occurs on the...
well made game, fluid, clever, its also preserves the rpg fantasy theme, has good musics. buy it, its worth your money.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Gordian Quest scores 70/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/981430/gordian-questReviews 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 Jul 31, price as of Sep 24.
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