Key facts
- Cheapest right now
- € Standard · Global · Gamivo
- Live offers
- 22 offers · 14 stores
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Ryse: Son of Rome has slipped under three dollars on Steam, ninety per cent off the sticker, and the deal trackers duly lit up. Nothing wrong with that. It is a genuine cut. It is also, for this particular game, a fairly ordinary Tuesday.
We keep our own record of what the shops actually charge, month after month, and that record answers a question no store page can: where the bottom of this game really sits. For the impatient, the short version is that you are currently sitting about forty cents above it.
Under three euros, and that is the normal state of things
Our page has 26 live offers on it right now, spread across 17 shops. The cheapest ordinary licence is € (with coupon GCDKGamivo), from Gamivo. Seven different sellers are under the three-euro mark, and the whole group fits inside thirty-three cents from first to seventh.
That bunching tells you more than the headline discount does. When seven shops land within a few coins of each other, none of them is running a special. They are all charging what the game is worth on the code market, and they have been for months.
The other nineteen offers on the page sit above 2,99 €, which is the useful bit of context. Cheap sellers are a minority here, not the default, and that is exactly why the average price of a month and the cheapest price of a month are two very different figures.
The seven cheapest sellers, and what each is actually selling
| Shop | Price | Format |
|---|---|---|
| Kinguin | 2,66 € | Standard |
| Gameseal | 2,72 € | Steam Gift |
| Eneba | 2,76 € | Standard |
| HRKGame | 2,80 € | Bonus |
| K4G | 2,84 € | Standard |
| Gamivo | 2,86 € | Standard |
| GamesPlanet | 2,99 € | Standard |
Worth pausing on the third column before you scroll past it. Those seven prices are not seven versions of the same product, and that is the one place on this page where you can still get it wrong. We come back to it below.
Five months of our own price record, month by month
Here is the part a Steam discount cannot show you. For each of the last five months: the lowest price anyone asked, and the average across the whole month.
| Month | Cheapest that month | Month average |
|---|---|---|
| August (still running) | 2,38 € | 4,49 € |
| July | 2,18 € | 3,71 € |
| June | 2,27 € | 3,80 € |
| May | 2,15 € | 4,02 € |
| April | 2,41 € | 3,64 € |
Read the two columns together. The average keeps landing somewhere between 3,60 € and 4,50 €, which is roughly what you pay if you buy on a random afternoon without checking. The floor barely moves at all: 2,15 €, 2,18 €, 2,27 €, 2,38 €, 2,41 €. Five months, five trips to more or less the same number.
So the honest reading of today is straightforward. 2,66 € is a good price. It is not a rare one, and it will come round again in a few weeks.
Standard, Steam Gift and Bonus are three different purchases
- Standard — the plain licence. You get a code, you redeem it, it is yours. This is what most of the seven are.
- Steam Gift — the game reaches you as a gift rather than a code, which means it depends on the sender going through with their side of it. Usually fine, occasionally slow.
- Bonus — a shop’s own variant on the standard product, bundled up under the seller’s own label rather than the publisher’s.
Good news here: the cheapest offer of the lot is a plain Standard, so the choice makes itself. Six cents separate it from the Gift sitting underneath, and six cents does not buy you enough to justify the extra step.
One thing our page does not carry: a Steam verdict
Say it plainly, because you would otherwise notice the hole and wonder. Our Ryse page has no Steam score on it and no Steam review count. We are not going to invent one, and we are not going to walk past the gap without mentioning it.
What we do hold in our own database is a critic average of 81, collected from the specialist press when the game was doing the rounds. That is a reviewers’ number. It is not the collective opinion of the people who own the game on Steam, and it should not be read as one.
The rest you can weigh up from the shape of the thing. It is a Roman action game built around spectacle, with a campaign you will see the end of comfortably. Below three euros that stops being a financial decision. Either an afternoon of that appeals to you or it does not, and no price chart is going to settle it.
Buy it tonight, or leave the alert sitting at 2,20 €?
For almost everyone reading this: buy it. Waiting a fortnight to save half a euro is a bad trade of your attention, and the difference between 2,66 € and 2,20 € is not worth a single reminder in your calendar.
The exception is the reader who already has a price alert set on the page and forgets about it entirely. In that case, put the number at 2,20 €. Judging by the last five months it will trip within a month or so, and you will have lost nothing waiting.
If you would rather have it now, the cheapest sellers are one click away: buy Ryse: Son of Rome key and take the Standard at the top. Just check the format column before you pay, not after.
I have been a gamer for as long as I can remember, and for the last 14 years I have been making life easier for other gamers. CEO and co-founder of Gocdkeys.
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