Ancient Enemy
Fair · RPG · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $16.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 7.9h 13.2h to 100%
- Value
- $2.15/hr
- Reviews
- 89% of 513 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $10.79 or less.
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
About the game
Ancient Enemy is an RPG card battler set in a crumbling world where the forces of evil have already won. Blast distorted enemies with a satisfying range of spells and abilities. Journey into a scarred wilderness and draw power and hope from the landscape to defeat the deadliest foe of all!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 1 GB VRAM, 143 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 72 times in the 7 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 4 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 10 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 80 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 91 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Vaporum ($3.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Dice & Fold ($12.99, scores 49).
More about Ancient Enemy
Steam's global achievement data puts about 18 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 7.9-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 1 of the 338 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to June 2026.
The drop-off
82% start to 18% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Sep 27, 21:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
One of my favorite card roguelikes out here. Definitely would recommend to anyone.
2 more reviews
Long texts - very good writing. This is my favorite Solitaire game from Grey Alien Games so far (and yes, I've played a few...).
If you enjoy the one-up, one-down solitaire mechanic, worth checking out. Graphics aren't quite as nice and the story isn't as good as Shadowhand, which is the other solitaire RPG made by Grey Alien. The computer opponents don't use the cards in this game, so you don't have to worry about leaving a combo in the tableau (and sometimes it's better to leave something there for your next turn). Doing well is usually a...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Ancient Enemy scores 61/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/993790/ancient-enemyReviews 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 Oct 1, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.