2025 · Action RPG · Medieval · Gothic
How long isOf Ash and Steel?
21 hours
for the typical playerhalf of them between 6 hours and 71 hours
Divisive for its kind: only 68% recommend it past the refund window, reviewed worse than 405 of 454 action RPGs here.
53% recommend it at 0 to 2 hours
65% recommend it at 2 to 5 hours
58% recommend it at 5 to 10 hours
54% recommend it at 10 to 20 hours
66% recommend it at 20 to 50 hours
74% recommend it at 50 to 100 hours
85% recommend it at 100 to 200 hours
Does Of Ash and Steel hold up?
Wears thin
Do the first two hours of Of Ash and Steel tell you?
In the first two hours53%recommend it
After that68%recommend it
17 of every 20 thumbs-down came after the window had closed, 3 while a refund was still possible.
How this is counted
Half of its Steam reviewers had played 21 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 6 hours and 71 hours.
One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 7,130 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.
It is recommended most by players at 2–5 hours: 65% of them. Among players at 10–20 hours that falls to 54%.
10% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 53% of those recommend it. After the window, 68% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 86% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 13 hours in.
When would you get there?
3weeks
At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 21 hours on Wednesday, November 11.
Half of its reviewers had played between 6 and 71 hours: Oct 27 to Dec 31 at this pace.
How this is counted
The typical player's hours are the hours Steam reviewers had played when they wrote their review, not a time to beat. The days count from today, playing the hours the pace says on each day.
Is Of Ash and Steel worth it?
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Of Ash and Steel
- Steam list price, US
- $29.99
- Typical player
- ÷ 21 h
- action RPG rate
- $1.85/h
- 21 h at that rate
- $39
List price. Not a sale price,
not what anyone paid.
Is Of Ash and Steel worth it? It depends.
Good value
1.3× the hours of a typical action RPG, for the same money
Mixed
68% recommend it after the refund windowmost action RPGs: 86%
How this is counted
At Steam's US list price of $29.99, the typical player's 21 hours come to $1.43 an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 68% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. At $1.43 an hour, Of Ash and Steel is cheaper per hour than 293 of 454 action RPGs here: the typical one of 454 action RPGs here charges $1.85, so the same $29.99 buys 1.3× the hours.
The price is Steam's US list price for the game by itself: not a sale price, a bundle or what anyone paid. The hours are the ones its reviewers had played, not a time to beat. Its kind (action RPGs) is what the game is first, as a model that knows games named it once from a list of Steam's kinds (for a game it did not know, its strongest Steam tags name it), among the kinds with at least 20 priced games here; failing that, by its Steam genre. The going rate is the middle hourly cost of those games, and the receipt prices its typical hours at it. The words beside it compare it with its kind: loved is 90% recommending it or more, liked 80%, mixed 65%; it gets played when a quarter fewer of the owners read here never launched it than of its kind's typical game. Whether it holds up is drawn on the hours road above, and counts toward the one-word answer.
Would you like Of Ash and Steel?
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How this is counted
It reads how long you tend to stay: across every game you've played whose typical hours it knows (free games left out), how often you went past the typical player and how often you left before half their hours. It glows when you often stay past them, dims when you often leave early, and needs five played games to read at all. Then it shows the games you own most like this one, by the same measure as the shelf of games like it, each with your hours against the typical player's.
Why not a forecast for this game: on 36,766 Steam libraries, how a player did on games like one told little beyond how long they stay in games at all, so those games are shown as evidence and never scored. Nothing of the library is kept.
Games like Of Ash and Steel
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Game of the Year Edition (2009)
Of Ash and Steel, but first-person, and even better loved
Loved · 95%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered
Of Ash and Steel, but three times the hours, and even better loved
Loved · 96%
How this is counted
Its own series apart, where it plays alike; then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the better known ahead among the about as alike. A model that knows games read the list once: the ones it said do not play like this game are left out, the closest come first. Under each name, what sets it apart from Of Ash and Steel: a kind of game it is that Of Ash and Steel is not, a feature its tags carry that Of Ash and Steel's barely do, how many hours people play it, how its reviewers feel. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.