Key facts
- Cheapest right now
- € Standard · Steam Account · Global · Difmark
- Live offers
- 21 offers · 9 stores
- Our pick
- Standard · Steam Gift · Global · Gamivo — €
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Moon Studios has moved the 1.0 release of No Rest for the Wicked out of October and into March next year, on PC and PS5. Before that there is an open beta in December, arriving after a run of closed tests that went after balance and stability rather than new content.
Buried in that announcement is a date with money attached, and it decides which offer on our PC page is worth your attention.
What the studio moved, and what it did not
The finished version slides five months, from October to March. December's open beta is the one visible checkpoint between here and there. The closed rounds before it were housekeeping: balance passes and stability fixes, with no fresh content attached.
Nobody is waiting for a first playable build here. The game has been in early access since 18 April, two years back, so what moves in March is the label, not the download.
The Founders Pack deadline runs through your own Steam account
The condition the studio set is this: players who have the game on Steam before 1 January are due the complete Founders Pack, with the equivalent arrangement for a PS5 preorder. We are passing that condition on as the studio published it, and we are in no position to guarantee it. Moon Studios writes the rules and can restate them, no shop listed on our page can promise the pack on the studio's behalf, and the studio's own channels are where you should read it before spending anything.
Read the wording closely, because the wording is the whole story. The game has to be in your Steam account. That is a much narrower thing than being able to launch it, and the four cheapest offers we track land on the wrong side of the difference.
The four cheapest offers hand you somebody else's password
Our PC page opens with Difmark at €9.00. Behind it, Driffle at €9.50, Kinguin at €9.90 and K4G at €10.28. All four are shared Steam accounts. You are paying for a login to a profile that already owns the game: you sign in as someone else, you play from their library, and your own stays exactly as empty as it was.
The familiar drawbacks come with that. Nothing accumulates under your name, you cannot gift it or sell it on, and the account's owner can change the password on any morning they like. The January date adds one more, and this one costs real money: a copy sitting in a stranger's account can do nothing for yours.
€34.78 is the cheapest copy that ends up in your library
Step past the account offers and the first thing that stays with you is a Steam Gift. Gamivo asks €34.78, Driffle €34.87, G2A €35.49. A gift is sent from the seller's own account, so there is a procedure attached — friend request, a wait, then the transfer — and once it arrives the game sits in your library like everything else you have bought.
Line the two ends of the page up and the decision is a plain one: €9.00 for a login, €34.78 for the first copy that is genuinely yours. That is €25.78 of difference, and the extra buys ownership and nothing else. Same game, same build, same early access.
Steam charges €39.99 and skips all of it. So the real choice is about five euros wide: five euros for avoiding the friend request and the wait, or five euros saved by putting up with them. Either way you buy No Rest for the Wicked key in a format that answers the January condition. The €9.00 one does not.
Past €40 the page stops making sense
There are 27 live offers from 13 shops, and the upper end of that spread has no logic left in it. Eneba €52.27, Difmark Digital Keys €52.75 as a gift, Kinguin €79.99, Gamivo €80.97, Eneba again at €86.59, G2A €90.24, K4G €97.31, Kinguin €97.36 and G2A €108.78. Valve sells the same game for €39.99.
Three more readings sit outside all of this: MMOGA €27.99, G2Play €30.64, Punktid €30.99. They are old enough that we would be inventing a bargain if we counted them.
On console there is barely anything to compare. PS5 has one offer at €34.99 and it is an account. Xbox One has one offer at €34.99, also an account.
1,657 readings, and a floor built out of passwords
We have been reading this page since 28 April and hold 1,657 readings of it. Month by month, the lowest price we recorded runs €9.00 in April, from three days of readings and no more, then €7.49 in May, €8.69 in June, €7.98 in July and €7.04 in August, on the 22nd, which is the lowest figure we hold for this game. So far this month the floor is back at €9.00.
Now the part a price comparison owes you. Every one of those monthly lows was set by a shared account. Our record of minimums for No Rest for the Wicked is a record of what passwords cost. A copy that genuinely stays in your library has barely strayed from what Steam charges in all that time, and none of those 1,657 readings says otherwise.
Very Positive on Steam, a 75 median at OpenCritic
Steam's verdict is Very Positive: 52,734 positive reviews out of 65,918. OpenCritic has collected 18 reviews, 10 of them from outlets it counts as top critics, with a median of 75, a top-critic average of 72.86 and 53.33% of reviews recommending the game. We have no usable Metacritic figure to add.
Moon Studios made it, the same team behind Ori, working in a register nothing like that one: isometric dark fantasy action and role-playing, slow combat built around stamina, crafting, and an island called Isola Sacra wrecked by a plague.
If you came here for the €9.00, that is the answer in one line. It buys access to somebody else's library, and it will not put the game in your account before 1 January.
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