Warriors of the Nile

Worth buying? What 135 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 135 Steam reviews actually say.

Mostly Positive · 79%Mostly Positive · 79%2020

$12.99

US Steam price, checked 2 h ago

The verdict

A fast, cute Egyptian-themed tactical roguelite in the Into the Breach and Slay the Spire mold, with great replayability for the price. Skip it if you dislike heavy RNG and uneven balance.

Great for

Fans of Into the Breach or Slay the Spire who want short, build-driven tactical runs

Main risk

Runs hinge on RNG tablet drops and uneven balance, and content runs thin after a few hours

What players love

Fast, addictive tactical gameplay

Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews

“Great, fast paced tactics, upgrades outside of runs that help you get stronger as you go, and even after you finish a run, it unlocks even more content to keep you going.”
Steam review · 3.4 h played ↗

“it's deeper than it seems at first. The loop is very tight and addictive!”
Steam review · 4.1 h played ↗

“If you're in a hurry, you can do a battle in 2-3 minutes, and a full game in an hour.”
Steam review · 7.6 h played ↗

Great replayability and unlocks

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews

“AMAZING replayability, that's probably its strongest feature. Hero morphs were the greatest idea ever.”
Steam review · 17 h played ↗

“I've run through over 20 times at this point and it doesn't get old.”
Steam review · 30.8 h played ↗

Build variety and fun synergies

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews

“each run can be wildly different with a lot of build variety with the different stage rewards to gear your party to a certain way”
Steam review · 25.5 h played ↗

“a run blessed with moderately good RNG in this game will have you cackling like a madman at the power your three heroes can spike to!”
Steam review · 12.5 h played ↗

“with a vast array of level ups to choose from each character has the potential to be your primary killing machine depending on how you build them”
Steam review · 19.9 h played ↗

Good value for the price

Mentioned in ~1 in 6 positive reviews

“Simple, quick, fun, challenging, cheap. Definitely worth the price.”
Steam review · 3.5 h played ↗

“$5 for 10 hours of gameplay”
Steam review · 10.8 h played ↗

Charming Egyptian art and music

Mentioned in ~1 in 6 positive reviews

“Absolutely adorable art style, with a setting that gets surprisingly little play in computer games.”
Steam review · 48.9 h played ↗

“The Egyptian theme, the music, the design... With lots of items to unlock and never the same game twice.”
Steam review · 2.3 h played ↗

Easy to learn, challenging, rewarding

Mentioned in ~1 in 7 positive reviews

“I think I can say this is an "easy to learn, hard to master" game”
Steam review · 4.2 h played ↗

“after a long period of pain, you can reach your ideal composition and wipe out the enemies and feel exhilarated”
Steam review · 61.2 h played ↗

What players complain about

Heavy RNG decides runs

Mentioned in ~3 in 5 negative reviews

“You can't finish a run if the RNG decides you can't, and I mean it.”
Steam review · 2.2 h played ↗

“The game is impossible to win while having no upgrades, then it's totally random based on which tablets you have at the end of each level.”
Steam review · 4.1 h played ↗

“If you luck out and find several upgrades for him, you may beat the entire game in one run.”
Steam review · 7.7 h played ↗

Unbalanced characters and upgrades

Mentioned in ~1 in 3 negative reviews

“The warrior class is insanely overpowered.”
Steam review · 37.1 h played ↗

“The only character with real survivability is the warrior.”
Steam review · 7.7 h played ↗

Repetitive with limited content

Mentioned in ~1 in 3 negative reviews

“Once you do a few runs, you basically seen all of the game. Variety is really lacking.”
Steam review · 8.6 h played ↗

“Not a lot of strategic depth (almost all maps are the same, not too much enemy variety).”
Steam review · 12.3 h played ↗

Too hard or grindy early on

Mentioned in ~1 in 3 negative reviews

“With 8 hours played, I still have not beat the 1st "world". Way too grindy for exp.”
Steam review · 8 h played ↗

Becomes too easy later

Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews

“Now it's far too easy. The difficulty doesn't scale adequately, especially as you unlock content.”
Steam review · 10.6 h played ↗

Save deleted

Mentioned in ~1 in 16 negative reviews

“Game deleted my save after 13 hours.”
Steam review · 13.8 h played ↗

System requirements

From the Steam store page

Steam Deck: Playable

Minimum

OSWindows 7

ProcessorIntel Core i5

Memory2 GB RAM

GraphicsNVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 / ATI Radeon HD 5750

Storage2 GB available space

OSWindows 7

ProcessorIntel Core i5

Memory2 GB RAM

GraphicsNVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 / ATI Radeon HD 5750

Storage2 GB available space

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