Idols of Ash

Idols of Ash

Steam Deck Playable

Leafy Games · Horror · Apr 9, 2026

Likely worth it. Reviews lean strongly positive.

It's at its lowest recorded price, $2.39.

97%
Overwhelmingly Positive
3k player reviews
Medium confidence
Buy it if you like
  • Gameplay: 77 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Story and characters: 53 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Graphics: 31 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • No recurring complaint surfaced in 300 sampled reviews

Based on 3k player reviews · updated 4 days ago

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
83% of themes are praise17% are divided0% are caveats
Gameplay
Players who bring up Gameplay mostly praise it.
Decent amount of replayability with the unlocked modes as well.
77 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Story and characters
Players who bring up Story and characters mostly praise it.
Story was interesting, as you dive deeper, you get more clues... as long was you can make it to the kilns since they are your check points, once you make it to the bottom, you get the ending, but I liked it, each spot giving you another clue, I forgot to hit the tent at the beginning until I just jumped on to test something, but as you plunge, you get glimpses of memories and the reason why you are descending.
53 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Graphics
Players who bring up Graphics mostly praise it.
The textures are looking very good to fit the design of the ancient place with its PS1-graphics style.
31 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Audio
Players who bring up Audio mostly praise it.
This game has solid sound design, great art direction, and a pretty high skill ceiling, even if the base game is relatively easy.
26 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Controls
Players who bring up Controls mostly praise it.
Coming from someone who never played this kinds of games like white knuckle and such, feel like a medium difficulty on the normal setting, have not tried nightmare yet, its not too hard once you get the idea of the controls, I kept finger screwing up all over int he beginning, got easier the more I played and you learn the route, I used the mouse and keyboard but saw there was a controller option which, personally, would have been better for me but stuck to it
9 of 300 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 love5 themes
Gameplay77 reviews
Story and characters53 reviews
Graphics31 reviews
Audio26 reviews
Controls9 reviews
Divided opinion% still recommend
Difficulty42 reviews
93%
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. 3 more themes were each raised by fewer than 6 sampled reviews and are not shown.

Should you buy it now?

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

Lowest ever recorded

Currently $2.39 (−20%). That's the lowest price we've ever recorded.

4 points recordedtoday · $2.39

The data behind the verdict

For the players who want the receipts.

Player review score
97%
Overwhelmingly Positive
Playing right now
Achievements
5
total to unlock
Rarest-achievement stats coming soon
Average playtime
Not tracked yet

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