Ring of Pain
Worth it · Roguelike · 2020
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99.
- Length
- 7.7h 93.5h to 100%
- Value
- $2.60/hr
- Reviews
- 91% of 5,106 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
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
Enter the Ring of Pain, a roguelike card crawler where encounters come to you. Each step around the ring a dire decision. Go for the loot or backstab a creeping horror? Meet strange friends bearing gifts and treasure. Choose your gear wisely to survive and discover the secrets of the Ring of Pain.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, OpenGL 2.0 compatible with 512 MB RAM, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
Across all 46 discounts in the 6 years tracked, the median cut is 60 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 12 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 85 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 85 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Darkest Dungeon® ($3.74, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Banners of Ruin ($19.99, scores 49).
More about Ring of Pain
Of the 562 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 79 percent of the 224 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 7.7 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 94, 12 times as much.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Ring of Pain scores 75/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/998740/ring-of-painReviews 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 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.