Operencia: The Stolen Sun

Operencia: The Stolen Sun

Skip · RPG · 2020

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 41, under the fair line, at $29.99.

Length
19.1h 32.1h to 100%
Value
$1.57/hr
Reviews
77% of 585 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
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

Raising the score
Engagement10% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$1.57/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews77% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 76% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 428 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

About the game

Operencia: The Stolen Sun embraces everything you love about classic first-person dungeon-crawlers, enhancing the old-school turn-based RPG experience with modern sensibilities. Guide a team of memorable characters through a world inspired by Central European mythology.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 (2048MB) or Radeon HD 7970 (3072MB), 15 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

It has been discounted 38 times in the 7 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 66 percent, about 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 30 percent on value. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 63 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Tower of Time ($24.99, scores 63) beats it on value, while it beats Torment: Tides of Numenera ($34.99, scores 27).

More about Operencia: The Stolen Sun

Steam's global achievement data puts about 10 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 19.1-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 428 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.

The drop-off

74% start to 10% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements

Players

Players online
2 when we last checked, on Oct 15, 01:55 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

I wish I had bought this game when it was new because I would have loved the opportunity to help it sell better. This game is an absolute gem! VASTLY UNDERRATED! It looks beautiful, has professional voice acting with cute banter between the heroes, and great classic first person dungeon crawler gameplay. EXTREMELY RECOMMEND!
rinaldopRecommendedafter 9.6hAug 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews
Undeniably one of the best dungeon crawlers on the market. Gorgeous art, interesting and fun story, voice acting on point, strong character customization, and more pros. I like the free camera approach; it's different than traditional fixed view dungeon crawlers but it works and gives even more emersion. I want to see more of this in the genre. Excellent game! You won't be disappointed.
ElectricMessiahRecommendedafter 10hJul 2026Read on Steam
I feel like this piece is one of the very few that faithfully carries on the spirit of the fabled golden age of blobbers (the late '90s and early 2000s), while bringing something of its own on top of that. Many recent titles - unfortunately, I'd even say the majority of them - simply fail to present a solid foundation, or steer too far away for whatever reason, ending up convoluted or dumbed down in one or more key...
NikanuurRecommendedafter 7.6hJul 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

Cite this score

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Operencia: The Stolen Sun scores 41/100 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/985950/operencia-the-stolen-sun
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Reviews 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.

Critics vs players+1
Critics76
Players77
Metacritic critics · 585 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperZen Studios
PublisherZen Studios
GenreRPG
Released2020
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements47