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Aeon's End
Developer Handelabra Games Inc.
Deck building with a twist! Lead a team of mages against the Nameless in this magic-based card battle game and save the city of Gravehold! From the Steam store page
291 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Oct 25, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
75
LovedLoved
144 positive · 48 negative
95% range 68–81%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 144 | 48 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 16 | 1 | 36 |
| Mastodon * | 9 | 0 | 15 |
| Lemmy * | 5 | 0 | 17 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
255 of 319 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
76% recommend · 146 yes, 46 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 192 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (411 of 505 positive).
Players praise the faithful digital adaptation of the board game, noting it captures the tactical depth and unique mechanics. [1][2][3] A common complaint is the lack of online multiplayer, with several players disappointed by the absence. [4][5][6]
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- [5]
Aeon's End is my favourite board game. I cannot recommend this version of it, however, for the simple reason that it is single player only. I bought this, and convinced three of my friends to buy it too, assuming we'd be able to play it together. We can't, because there is no multiplayer functionality. Why would you even design a video game implementation of a board game without multiplayer?? Playing with other …
- [10]
If you are a seasoned strategy player and are looking for a single player challenge, you should ignore the negative reviews. Most of them are motivated by a missing multiplayer online mode and the difficulty level. It took me 3 attempts to win the tutorial battle and I am a strategy veteran. So don't buy this game unless you like a challenge and are an experienced strategy player.
- [11]
I'm just going to say it - this is a Dark Souls of board games, and most negative reviews are caused by players getting absolutely owned by this *difficult* game. 1. The game is easy to learn, difficult to master. You will lose a lot, but you will also learn a lot. Pay attention to why you lost. Overran by minions? You probably should have bought more spells. Bought plenty of spells but could never cast them? You …
- [7]
This card game is such a blast, challenging, infinitely replayable and works great solo! Advantages over the physical game: + Games are much quicker (10 minutes on digital instead of 45-60 minutes on physical) + Great built-in tutorial + Fun animations, unique for each bad guy My only complaint: - No online support (Had to use Parsec to play with my friend)
- [1]
Aeon's End is an adaptation of the boardgame of the same name, https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/191189/aeons-end so if you want to know more about it there's plenty of information out there with regards of how it plays. As for the Steam version it's a faithful 1-1 adaptation of the first wave of content, the Aeon's End core box, The Depths and The Nameless, as well as The New Age box. The Steam version plays well …
Summarised from 34 of the 290 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 13, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
Aeon's End sits at 75% positive across 192 opinionated reactions from 4 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Reactions
60 of 291 · most liked firstSlay the Spire - First impressions. As soon as this game launched on Kickstarter, I backed it. I had discussed before with my friends that I would love for a good way to play Slay the Spire cooperatively. Yes, there are mods for the videogame which introduce co-op, but you're playing a multiplayer solitaire game. You aren't really interacting that much. The boardgame implements co-op in a really nice, interactive and meaningful way. #### Context and bias I think it's important to put a big…
neutral · AI labelView post →Day 6: Best Cooperative game - Spirit Island. In order to promote discussion on Lemmy, I’m doing micro-reviews for my favorite boardgames by genre. Please join in, provide your reviews, flame me for my terrible taste or to suggest a category for tomorrow! Today's game is [Spirit Island](https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/162886/spirit-island) # TL;DR **Score:** 9/10 **Positives:** - Gorgeous artwork - Theme fits great in the game - Very thinky - Tons of difficulty adjustments and…
neutral · AI labelView post →Aeon's End is my favourite board game. I cannot recommend this version of it, however, for the simple reason that it is single player only. I bought this, and convinced three of my friends to buy it too, assuming we'd be able to play it together. We can't, because there is no multiplayer functionality. Why would you even design a video game implementation of a board game without multiplayer?? Playing with other people is the entire point of board games!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Spot Illustration of a 10 character series I made about a year ago for Aeon's End - Deck Building Game by Indie Boards and Cards.
neutral · AI labelView post →This game is NOT multiplayer. Ignore the dev website, ignore anything else you hear, it is NOT multiplayer. You can screen share, Just like Jackbox. Not the same. Not even close. How this game doesn't have multiplayer built in for a co-op game with so many possibilities, highly disappointing. Just play Dominion; the fact that you can do that with any browser and this doesn't work through Steam...disappointing.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My partner also doesn't like losing, and so we bought a few cooperative games instead. Now we both have a great time regardless, as we both win or lose together. Aeon's End and Spirit Island are two games which we play which we particularly enjoy!
positive · AI labelView post →If you are a seasoned strategy player and are looking for a single player challenge, you should ignore the negative reviews. Most of them are motivated by a missing multiplayer online mode and the difficulty level. It took me 3 attempts to win the tutorial battle and I am a strategy veteran. So don't buy this game unless you like a challenge and are an experienced strategy player.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →LOVE the board game. I have the base game and New Age. When this went on sale I bought it for my friends and I to play after we moved. Little did I know there is NO online multiplayer. You'll have to do remote play (bad idea because the other person/people don't control anything), or use a 3rd party app like Parsec and deal with the frame rate drops. There is no point in making a board game available on steam for it to NOT have multiplayer. When I looked it up on the Steam community pages,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm just going to say it - this is a Dark Souls of board games, and most negative reviews are caused by players getting absolutely owned by this *difficult* game. 1. The game is easy to learn, difficult to master. You will lose a lot, but you will also learn a lot. Pay attention to why you lost. Overran by minions? You probably should have bought more spells. Bought plenty of spells but could never cast them? You probably need to open more breaches. Don't just buy gems thinking you can focus…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've been hired to illustrate 10 hero characters for the upcoming Aeon's End 8 board game and this here is one of them. Enjoy! #aeonsend #fantasy #boardgame #commission #commissionsopen
neutral · AI labelView post →#FantasyIndiesNovember 17: Your Hobbies I don't spend all my time writing. I... Paint minis! Play board/card games. (shown: Aeon's End) Collect Art Nouveau silver. (shown: Love Disarmed pattern, Reed & Barton) But mostly I write and the IRS calls that a hobby too. #Miniaturepainting
neutral · AI labelView post →I have a hard time saying "don't buy this" because it had a good idea. The problem resolves around the difficulty just being too high. The fact that you don't shuffle your deck isn't really an issue, as far as I'm concerned. Its an odd choice to be sure, but it means you rarely end up with a hand you can't do anything with (and you can view your deck and discard pile at any time). But no, my problem has to do with the difficulty. As an example I just played a game against the Carapace…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pros: Plays like the actual game. Cons: Has everything but online multiplayer.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A repeat of Aeon's End, this time with a better balance of costs in the randomised setup and that definitely made for a better game. One Mage became exhausted and though we were steadily whittling the Nemesis down, that one keeps regenerating. But then our decks really started firing... #boardgames
positive · AI labelView post →I've been hired to illustrate 10 hero characters for the upcoming Aeon's End 8 board game and this here is one of them. Enjoy! #aeonsend #fantasy #boardgame #commission #commissionsopen
neutral · AI labelView post →All right, I guess this is a thing we're doing. I have a BGG post with commentary in the works, which will definitely get posted soon and not in, like, 2028. While it may look like Break the Code is the winner by a long shot (thanks #BoardGameArena), I actually played #AeonsEnd 40 times (there are 4 more plays on page 2) and #Exceed 7 times (5 plays on page 2). #boardgames #bgstats
positive · AI labelView post →The game starts out so punishing that I don't really learn it. The game is a smooth digital board game adaptation but it is not really fun to get into due to the bosses just steamrolling you out of nowhere.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →#boardgames night was #AeonsEnd (3P win vs Risen Thrall) and two games I haven't played since before the pandemic: Lorenzo il Magnifico (7.6/10) and The Magnificent (8.7/10). It's been long enough that I forgot where the noob traps were and got crushed in both, but they're still good. (Incidentally, the noob traps are being demonstrated in the photos I stole from BGG.) Maybe I'll bring old favorites only (2+ years since last played) to all the game nights in July.
positive · AI labelView post →I bought this game as I am a fan of most deck building games (I have numerous hours playing and enjoying Ascension). Unfortunately, I found this game to be relatively bland, frustrating in difficulty, and boring in gameplay. I keep coming back to it in the hopes of finally finding some success and enjoyment from the game, but having no success so far.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →WIP for Aeon's End 8, a board game project I am thankful for the opportunity to contribute to. #boardgames #aeonsend #gamedev #commissionsopen #commission
neutral · AI labelView post →If you have ever wondered if FaB is the only game I obsessively organize and track or if I'm Just Like That, this is my Aeon's End collection I am Just Like That. (I also took over the Aeon's End dataset because it was abandoned by its original maintainer and I needed it to make my dividers, oops)
neutral · AI labelView post →Aeon's End on Friday against Knight Of Shackles. Really close game, he's quite a bit more direct-damaging aggressive, which was interesting. I was exhausted, Gravehold was on 3 HP, and the other player had 1 HP left, and the Knight was down to 13 HP..... #boardgames
neutral · AI labelView post →> Games which do not end friendships, but strengthen them. I can answer this part of your post with: - Slay the Spire The Boardgame (4p vs env) - Sky Team (2p vs env) - Bullet❤️ (1-4p vs 1 npc) - Aeon's End (1-4p vs 1 npc) - Between Two Cities (Co-op between players to your left and right but still competing with each other and the other players) > Games where working together works and loners fall behind. This qualifier is a bit harder to answer, I'll have to think and look through the TT…
neutral · AI labelView post →Our friends Les & Laurie gave @jridpath.bsky.social & me these custom mugs w/some of our fave boardgames! On mine: Mansions Of Madness, Aeon's End, Letters From Whitechapel. Jeff's: Maria, Twilight Struggle, War Of The Ring. #Boardgames
neutral · AI labelView post →The deck building without reshuffling in Aeon's End. It sounded so strange at first, but as we played the game, we noticed how well it worked. You have to really think about when is a good time to buy spells, how you can make sure you can get a big burst of energy now and then, etc.
positive · AI labelView post →Board game is great, the digital version is pretty unpolished. Also local multiplayer is hot-seat (eeew) and there isn't any networked multiplayer. Overall I def recommend the board game but not this
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →try a round on beginner difficulty vs the easiest boss without serious planning and knowledge of the cards, you will still almost certainly lose. Even once you actually know how the game works pretty thoroughly (ive played about 7-8 games), and know the cards/characters and how to use them effectively (which, I guess you just have to go look up because if you want to learn on the go you will die in 5 seconds) you are still most likely to lose significantly on beginner vs the easiest boss. If…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One of the neat things about #AeonsEnd and other difficult cooperative #boardgames is that even when you hit a general level of mastery, it can still take a few tries to puzzle out exactly how you're supposed to adapt your play style to particular bosses, because it's not always obvious. Anyways I finally got consistent at beating this jerk.
positive · AI labelView post →Solid tabletop but awkward execution. UI could be much better and the tutorial is more annoying than helpful. Just go play the actual game on tabletop sim. Oh and by the way, bought the game then realized even this small thing is cut up into base + 3 dlc. Great.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →TLDR: While it brings some interesting CCG gameplay mechanics, the lack of base game content and brutal difficulty make this an easy avoid. PROS: ➕Unique gameplay setup with multiple characters/deckbuilding CONS: ➖Not much content in base game ➖Not much gameplay in general - no goals, no unlockables, only a handful of cards ➖Excessively high difficulty - having trouble winning a single game vs the easiest boss on the lowest setting Content (Game world/Narrative) – [2/10] The game…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good adaptation of the board game. It's a pity that not all extensions are available in this digital version. The Steam Remote feature works well, allowing you to play online with friends. Highly recommended!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In my experience it can be alleviated with the help of the game's mechanics. For example Pandemic is a terrible game for that (it's a good game, but completely has the default you mentioned) because all the information is public, you know what cards the other players have, and in terms of mechanics, each character has its own power, but it's really easy to have everything in mind at the same time. So an experienced player will have a good vision of the strategy and will possibly railroad…
neutral · AI labelView post →Aeon's End is an adaptation of the boardgame of the same name, https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/191189/aeons-end so if you want to know more about it there's plenty of information out there with regards of how it plays. As for the Steam version it's a faithful 1-1 adaptation of the first wave of content, the Aeon's End core box, The Depths and The Nameless, as well as The New Age box. The Steam version plays well and it supports Remote Play as well for multiplayer.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've been hired to illustrate 10 hero characters for the upcoming Aeon's End 8 board game and this here is one of them. Also if you want to watch me work live, feel free to join me over at twitch: twitch.tv/simonpapeart Enjoy! #aeonsend #fantasy #boardgame #commission
neutral · AI labelView post →New moderator saying hi!. Hi everyone, I thought I'd say hi in this new community as a new moderator. I'm Foon (she/her), and I love table top games. My partner and I have been gaming *a lot* in the past 5 years or so, and we have a bunch of friends that turned into boardgamers too, and boardgamers that we turned into friends. So on average we get almost a game a day in. I'm excited to discuss all things tabletop gaming with you all. Some of my favourite games are Gloomhaven/Frosthaven,…
neutral · AI labelView post →THIS GAME HAS NO MULTIPLAYER! If you want to play with friends you won't be able in this game. Devs are saying that you can use remote play and take turns. Following this logic Windows Minesweeper is also a multiplayer game. Lesson learned: Next time actually check if there is a specific game mode - started learning the game and I passed the refund time.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Came over to this game after getting into Ascension, Dominion, Star Realms and Mystic Vale... and I have to say I had a good blast, managing to finally beat the tutorial after two failed attempts and two and a half hours of play. Really like the more complex mechanics (over said titles) with a few mildly baffling moments followed by lots of nice Eureka moments. Gameplay was really engaging with the difficulty pitched just right. It's not too overwhelming and not too shallow either. I can see…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Definitely a fun time waster, but I would like if they actually rolled out true multiplayer support (hot-seat multiplayer was hated back in 2001 man).
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Had some friends over on Saturday and played a bunch. Taverns of Tiefenthal is pretty good, although I think noone really had a good grasp of tracking points. We played the base game (module 1) only, looking forward to the advanced modules. Then we went for a classic round of Betrayal at Baldur's Gate and got really lucky on the survivor side in terms of both stats and locations. Which is a pretty common thing in this game, I guess. We ended with a round of Aeon's End, which started off…
neutral · AI labelView post →Spirit Island is probably our biggest mainstay at the moment. One of our group has most of the content and I'm still only about halfway through playing every spirit we have. The replayability is just amazing and the pacing is beautiful, hitting you hard in the early game and then slowly you turn the tide. Not to mention some of the spirits are just so doggamn satisfying to play. We're also pretty big into Aeon's End. I completely hated this game in the beginning because I couldn't see how you…
neutral · AI labelView post →I see a few of my favorites have been mentioned already (**Aeon's End, Spirit Island, The Crew, Pandemic Legacy**) but here's a few more: - **Gloomhaven**: There's a reason this game was at the Boardgamegeek #1 spot for years. Absolutely an epic game, with so much strategy and variety involved. For those who are intimidated by the complexity, size or price of the game, there is also **Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion**, which is essentially a light version of the game. An excellent starting point,…
neutral · AI labelView post →- **Regicide** is very impressive in its weight class and considering that all you need is a standard deck of cards. No reason not to try it - In the pandemic-family my favorites are **Pandemic: The Cure** which turns Pandemic into a dice rolling romp and **Pandemic: Fall of Rome**, has cool cube movement and dice based combat rules. One step up is **The LOOP** which is somewhere between Pandemic and Spirit Island, uses card driven actions and has a push-pull mechanic - **Aeon's End** and…
neutral · AI labelView post →I mostly play big campaign games with my partner, for example currently we're playing Frosthaven and Oathsworn (and have Aeon Trespass lined up). Other favourites are Aeon's End, Spirit Island, Terraforming Mars. Me and my friends have a strong preference for cooperative games! Some more low key games that we tend to bring out with friends who don't game a lot are Isle of Cats, Thunderbirds, Namiji, and The Crew.
positive · AI labelView post →Solid board game. Very well implemented to PC. If boardgames you like, this one buy you must. You and your descendants fun will have. And cutting the cr*p, there aren't many good boardgames that are easy to learn and difficult to master. For price and quality of the game, if you are a boardgame lover, don't hesitate and buy it. Particularly to play it with a friend or your couple. If you are not very fond of board games, this game doesn't exclude you either. It's a nice challenge of…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My favorute board game, played in real life more 50 games. And so cool adaptation, played at smartphone as more 600 games. Recomended if you want hardcore deckbuilding expirience. Must have all DLC. Unforterly need more content(inculuding more waves of Aeons end content), as have board game, but it enought to play more 500 runs :)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →18+ Werewolf Mom Playing Tabletop games w/ Friends; Aeon's End! #Furry #Therian #Twitchtv #Streamer #Trans #Safespace We are delving into an RNG / Coop / Deckbuilding board game. Come join us, chat about your favorite tabletop games. <3 twitch.tv/polychromati...
neutral · AI labelView post →0/10 Lazy graphic. Filled with glitches. Save your money. Play it on Tabletop simulator instead.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Aeon's End is a fun card game that I like playing with my friends. Aeon's end is also a game that makes me want to punch a hole in a wall :)
neutral · AI labelView post →What I do on weekends… I paint minis and play board games! The centaur ranger is from Massive Darkness. The game being played is Aeon’s End. #miniaturepainting #AeonsEnd #MassiveDarkness
neutral · AI labelView post →Currently at 95.0/100 new #boardgames for 2024. There's two more currently in progress on #boardgamearena, and I assume the other three will be similarly light, so I suspect I can call it for the year in terms of top X retrospectives. (As usual, my sorting of #AeonsEnd plays by nemesis is splitting the count over multiple items, but if they were all together they'd be most played at around 360.)
neutral · AI labelView post →I don't unbox often, but when I do I take a deep dive into the new rules and mechanics of an expansion to a game I love. If that sounds good to you, check out my Aeon's End: The Descent impressions!
positive · AI labelView post →3. Aeon's End is my single favorite board game that I've ever played. Cooperative deckbuilders are extremely my deal, and cool magic, cool relics, and clever mechanics generally are always going to make me happy.
positive · AI labelView post →Look into a game called Aeon's End. It's a digital adaptation of a tabletop deck builder that's super fun. You can choose opponents of varying difficulties so the learning curve is pretty reasonable. One you understand the game's strategies, it's very satisfying to play at a high level.
positive · AI labelView post →Aeon's End and Deep Rock Galactic immediately come to mind here. Both are great games, but the instructions are terrible. AE somehow manages to extend fairly simple rules into very long paragraphs, making it seem way more complicated than it is in practice. DRG lacks icons for most effects, which decreases readability. It's also sorted in a way I can never look something up quickly without reading entire pages to find the relevant paragraph, with some explanations being in the scenario book…
neutral · AI labelView post →I've been writing down the results of TTS's deck shuffles for my last 50 games of #AeonsEnd, and the number of double turns that come up is actually pretty close to (just below) the average. Conclusion: This RNG behaves itself when it knows it's being watched. Yeah that's right. I'm onto you, you little shit. #boardgames
positive · AI labelView post →Had a busy week. The two of us played two scenarios of Gloomhaven JotL. I changed from my initial tank character to Voidwarden, who's got a buff/debuff and action granting/manipulation mechanic. She's a lot more fun for me and I feel like she works a little better with my partner's ranged character also. The last scenario was so close, we were 1 and 0 turns away from exhaustion when we won. Funnily enough we both got squeezed into a corner and surrounded by the boss's summons so the boss…
neutral · AI labelView post →Was just about to post this myself ;-) GF and I played a round of **Lost Cities**, one of our go to games. It's always fascinating to see how each game develops and agonizing to decide which colors to throw away and which ones to commit to. This was a hugely close game 199 vs 224. The last round we basically didn't compete in ANY color. Each of us just kept drawing almost all cards of our respective color. She a bit more than me but what I lacked in value cards I made up in multipliers and…
neutral · AI labelView post →Coop games where you fight a system often feel unsatisfying to me. However, I think coop games are an excellent way to bring new gamers on board. My favorite coop games: - **Menara**: a coop dexterity game. Game is always tense and I find the difficult adjustments to be nicely balanced. This is a very underrated game, in my opinion - **The Crew**: in Portugal we used to be big on trick taking games. Every family owns a deck of cards! The crew retains the feel of the classic trick taking games…
neutral · AI labelView post →This card game is such a blast, challenging, infinitely replayable and works great solo! Advantages over the physical game: + Games are much quicker (10 minutes on digital instead of 45-60 minutes on physical) + Great built-in tutorial + Fun animations, unique for each bad guy My only complaint: - No online support (Had to use Parsec to play with my friend)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Tonight's #boardgames were a 4P round of #AeonsEnd against one of the endgame bosses from Legacy of Gravehold (we won), and a somewhat lopsided 4P #Concordia on Ionium. No one contested me on Cloth, and everyone else contested each other on Colonists. Oops.
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