The Tenants
Skip · Strategy · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Under the fair line today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 90% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$19.99Skip
Typical seasonal cut
$3.9980% offFair
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.53/hr
- Reviews▼
- 79% of 7,790
- Genre rank
- Top 18% Strategy
Holding it back: Reviews, Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 13.1h
- Finish
- <1% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 86
Price and sales
- Sales
- 45 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $1.99 June 2025
- Sale every
- 44d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 42 now
- Cheaper than
- 7% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 75% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
93% start to <1% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 45 times in the 6 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 18 percent. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 75 percent. Among the games that feel like it, WW2 Rebuilder ($4.79, scores 69) beats it on value, while it beats Hotel Renovator ($24.99, scores 38).
More about The Tenants
Steam's global achievement data puts under 1 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 13.1-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 11 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2024 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 52 percent of the 608 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 20 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
I want to love this game. It has what it needs but its super buggy and the time frames are too short, especially for lease negotiations. It's repetative, especially with some tasks being needed to be completed more than once with almost exactly the same parameters. The most painful point though is making money. Its slow and progress is painful. It's a shame. The premise is interesting and its a good way to...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
The Tenants lets you live out your landlord dreams without having to actually own property, which is probably the safest way to build your own rental empire. I've put about nine hours into it. I did enjoy the renovation process but unfortunately, the game had a habit of turning me from a landlord to an unpaid IT support professional. bugs and finicky controls were my doom and had derailed me from this gameplay. I...
It's a cautious recommend, because I realise this game is basically, unfortunately, abandoned by the devs. Still, I believe it is incredibly fun and good for long hours of playtime. There are some bugs, but they personally didn't prevent me from playing and restarting the game helps fix them. It happened maybe 3 times over 30 hours? So it's really not that bad.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Become a landlord and deal with problematic tenants as you build your rental property empire. Decide how to react to annoyed neighbors or police interventions. Will you design your apartment for a group of gamer friends or an aspiring musician looking for a new home?
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 560 / AMD R7-260X, 6 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Tenants scores 49/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1009560/the-tenantsReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 15, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.