Top 10 Steals During Steam's Party-Based RPG Fest

Until September 21, Steam is giving party-based RPG fans a very good excuse to start another 50-hour campaign they probably do not have time for.

The lineup covers far more than the usual fantasy epics. Alongside Baldur's Gate 3, Divinity: Original Sin 2 and Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, you will find tactical RPGs, roguelites and monster collectors that all build their parties in very different ways.

Party building can look very different from one game to the next. You might spend half an hour planning six builds, or simply find three monsters whose abilities work well together.

With that much variety, we picked ten deals worth checking before the Fest ends.

At $8.49, For The King II is 66% off its usual $24.99 price. For that, you get the full roguelite campaign with solo play or co-op for up to four players.

You move adventurers across a procedural map, deciding when to explore, fight or stop and recover. Focus lets you secure successful rolls, so spending it to survive one encounter can leave the party short later. A wounded character can also turn what looked like a simple detour into a reason to change the route entirely.

Runs can still fall apart through bad rolls or a fight taken too early, and losing means building another party and trying again. At less than nine dollars, there is plenty of campaign and replayability here, especially if you have friends willing to share the decisions.

Expeditions: Rome gives you a full Roman campaign for $11.24, down from $44.99, and most of the interesting decisions happen inside its six-person squad.

Some missions force you to bring hired soldiers alongside a named companion, so ignoring the reserves can leave you badly prepared later. Class specializations help those replacements fill specific roles instead of feeling like spare bodies.

Companion loyalties add more tension to the political side of the campaign. Legion management is less exciting, and gathering resources or moving armies around the world map can become routine long before the tactical battles do.

In Mewgenics, the cats you send on an adventure are only part of the plan. Useful traits and abilities can pass to their offspring, while class collars decide what those cats eventually do in battle.

A particularly good combination can keep showing up several generations later, so losing a party does not always mean starting from scratch. Breeding can also hand you results you never planned for, and the combat is just as willing to throw something unexpected at you. The crude humor is very much part of the experience too.

At $22.49, Mewgenics only gets a 25% cut during the sale, making it one of the pricier games on this list. Most of the value comes from how many different teams you can breed, build and send out again.

If you somehow missed Baldur's Gate 3, Steam has knocked the usual $59.99 price down to $41.99 for the Fest.

You are still getting one of the easiest RPGs to replay with a completely different party. Bring another companion and conversations change, personal quests open up and skills such as Speak with Dead can send an investigation in a direction you never saw the first time.

The same goes for combat. Swap one party member and suddenly you have different spells, positioning options and ways to abuse the environment. It is nowhere near the cheapest game on this list, but $18 off a campaign this large is still a very good excuse to finally start it.

Wasteland 3 drops you into post-nuclear Colorado with a squad of Rangers and a long list of factions that all want something from you. Choosing who to trust can cause almost as much trouble as the firefights.

Those battles give you plenty of dirty tricks to work with. A charged Precision Strike can hit a robot's CPU and turn it against its own side, which is usually more satisfying than shaving another chunk off its health bar.

Steam has the base game down to $11.99, which buys you a long campaign full of squad building and difficult faction choices. Your custom Rangers are a little bland, but the people they meet are anything but.

Crystal Project turns exploration into another way to build the party. Finding a new crystal can unlock a class, so climbing across the world often ends with another round of tinkering once you reach it.

Subclasses let you keep useful abilities after switching jobs, while visible turn order and damage numbers make it easy to see whether a strange new setup is actually working. The threat system helps too, letting tougher characters soak up attacks while fragile specialists do their job.

At $9.09, there is a lot of build experimentation here for very little money. The platforming and sparse story will not work for everyone, but the class system can keep you busy long after the next crystal stops being enough motivation on its own.

At $4.99, Monster Sanctuary is the kind of deal that makes it very easy to lose an evening to "just one more team change."You fight with three monsters at a time, and attack order matters because each action builds a combo for the next. 

A creature that barely hurts anything can still earn its place by buffing the team or setting up the monster that hits last. Later battles are where the roster really opens up. Old favorites stop working, skill trees need reshuffling and something you ignored ten hours earlier can suddenly be exactly what the next matchup needs.

Randomizer and permadeath modes give you even more excuses to dig through the wider roster once the campaign is done.

Chained Echoes lets you stop hoarding your best abilities for a boss fight that may still be an hour away. Health and skill resources refill after every battle, so ordinary encounters can use the full party instead of basic attacks and restraint.

The shared Overdrive meter keeps that freedom in check. Stay in the green and you deal more damage while spending less on skills; push too far and suddenly a defensive move or character swap is the smarter option.

At $8.74, you are getting a long story-driven RPG with a large rotating cast and a combat system that keeps asking you to use them.

Ten dollars does a frankly silly amount of work here. The $9.99 Game of the Year Edition includes Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous and all six premium expansions.

The main campaign already gives you six party slots, a huge class list and more feats and spells than most people will ever use. Mythic paths such as Angel and Lich can then change both your abilities and parts of the story, while The Treasure of the Midnight Isles gives you a separate roguelike space to test builds.

You will spend plenty of time reading tooltips and planning level-ups. If that sounds like fun, this is easily one of the biggest bargains in the Fest.

Few RPGs are better at letting one party member create trouble for the next. Teleport an enemy into oil, set it on fire with someone else, then realise one of your own companions is standing in the blast zone.

That kind of interaction runs through the whole campaign. Positioning, surfaces and flexible character builds give you room to keep finding new ways through fights, whether you play alone or bring up to three friends.

The Definitive Edition is $11.24, but the real steal is the $10.66 Source Saga bundle. It also includes Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition, so two complete Larian RPGs currently cost less than buying the sequel on its own.