Cycle of Struggle: Ardengrad

Cycle of Struggle: Ardengrad

Steam Deck Playable

Visionary Impact · Visual Novel · Feb 6, 2026

Reviews look positive, but there are only a few so far.

At $9.99. It has been as low as $7.99.

98%
Very Positive
51 player reviews
Low confidence · few reviews
Buy it if you like
  • Story and characters: 6 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • No recurring complaint surfaced in 10 sampled reviews

Based on 51 player reviews · updated 2 days ago

What players think

The recurring themes across 10 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.

Why players love itThings to know
100% of themes are praise10 helpful reviews0% are caveats
Story and characters
Players who bring up Story and characters mostly praise it.
I completed the full early access to the point where i am writing the review, the game itself is a unique combination of different types of visual novels what you cant find anywhere else, and when the updates and next chapters come you will also be able to get dating/romance endings with each one of them, there are 4 options who are halfed in two main routes, at the ending of one of those two main routes you choose one of those two girls who is in this specified route, but we are not yet at this point of course, i needed 12 hours to complete it but normal players seem to need like 6 hours, maybe 7 to 8 hours when you try to get all achievements, now to the psycho horror/dark sides of this visual novel, the dev says that this is a sci fi political drama or so, but the game and story always hinted that there is way more behind it than that, there are also some bold references in one specified part of the story but thats rather funny, the kind of psycho horror what this game follows is different and worth to notice and deep dive into, because we only got hints and not enough content to look behind it yet i cant really say what the core is, but the game suprises you sometimes and catches you off guard even when you are a psycho horror fan, there is a discord server and the dev likely always answers you whatever you want when you ask nicely so there is no actual problem, what the only real downside is in my eyes is that the choices itself are not actually clear, what i mean with that is that you believe that this and that would happen when you take you choice but actually the games system counts that as something completely different, thats what i think at least.
6 of 10 sampled reviews raised it

Theme by theme

Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.

LovedMixedComplained about
Players love1 theme
Story and characters6 reviews
Divided opinion% still recommend

No themes split opinion in this sample.

Players complain% still recommend

No recurring complaints surfaced in this sample.

Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway.

Should you buy it now?

Crit’s read on the price, from Steam price history.

Prices have been lower

Currently $9.99. The lowest we've tracked is $7.99.

3 points recordedtoday · $9.99

The data behind the verdict

For the players who want the receipts.

Player review score
98%
Very Positive
Playing right now
Achievements
10
total to unlock
Rarest-achievement stats coming soon
Average playtime
Not tracked yet

We’ll surface hours-played once playtime ingestion ships.