Of Ash and Steel

Wait66%

Mixed · 7k player reviews · High confidence

It depends on what you're after.

Steam Deck Playable
  • Windows

Fire & Frost · Action RPG · Nov 24, 2025

Player review score
66%
Mixed
Price
$29.99
Playing right now
All-time peak
Not charted

Steam only charts its most-played games, and this one isn’t among them.

Achievements
30
total to unlock
Steam does not publish achievement rarity.
Languages
8
Full audio2 of 8
Subtitles8 of 8

Should I buy Of Ash and Steel?

Buy it if you like
  • Gameplay: 102 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Story: 80 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Difficulty: 28 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • Combat: 83 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Bugs: 46 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Crashes: 24 reviews raised it, mostly criticism

Based on 7k player reviews · updated

What players think

The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.

Why players love itThings to know
42% of themes are praise8% are divided50% are complaints
Gameplay
Players who bring up Gameplay mostly praise it.
102 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Looks good, has lots of crafting, well optimized, big world, fairly complex, rewards exploration.
Story
Players who bring up Story mostly praise it.
80 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
If your game relies on no minimap, no quest markers and heavy player exploration, then the dialogue and environmental direction NEED to be extremely clear and carefully written.
Difficulty
Players who bring up Difficulty mostly praise it.
28 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
So fighting can be really challenging on the highest difficulty, but if the fight is too tough, just run away.
Graphics
Players who bring up Graphics mostly praise it.
22 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
It feels like an open world Xbox 360 game, like Two Worlds or something like that, but with more modern graphics.
Audio
Players who bring up Audio mostly praise it.
12 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Voice acting is pretty good, but they somehow managed to ♥♥♥♥ up the volume mixing.

Theme by theme

Scored on what reviews say about each topic, not the thumbs.

Players love
Gameplay102 reviews
Story80 reviews
Difficulty28 reviews
Graphics22 reviews
Audio12 reviews
Divided opinion
Characters
67% still recommend
Players complain
Combat
61% still recommend
Bugs
61% still recommend
Crashes
38% still recommend
Interface
80% still recommend
Controls
67% still recommend
Performance
78% still recommend

What you get

Can you play it alone, does a controller work, does it run on your machine.

Play modes

  • Single-player

Controller

Steam lists no controller support.

Store features

  • Family Sharing
  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Cloud
  • Steam Trading Cards

Platforms

  • Windows

Valve device support

Steam DeckPlayable
SteamOSPlayable
Steam MachinePlayable

Should I buy it now?

Based on Steam price history.

Prices have been lower
$29.99

The lowest we've tracked is $19.49.

9 points recordedtoday · $29.99

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