Tribe: Primitive Builder
Fair · Strategy · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Fair at $3.79, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Oct 2023. Buy it now if you want it.
- Length
- 11.5h 20.6h to 100%
- Value
- $0.33/hr
- Reviews
- 81% of 804 positive
Full price
Today
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Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Chill out as you explore the beautiful, realistic island of exiles. Gather resources, craft tools, construct buildings and settlements. Manage tribe and automate your gameplay. Discover 4 lands, a storyline and save the inhabitants of the island.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, RX 570 4GB VRAM / GeForce GTX 970 4GB VRAM, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
October 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $3.79. It has been discounted 33 times in the 3 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 45 percent, about 5 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 9 percent on value. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 80 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Stone Simulator – Just Be a Rock ($2.99, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats Recycling Center Simulator ($19.99, scores 54).
More about Tribe: Primitive Builder
The press gave it 64; the people who bought it give it 81 percent. A 17-point gap in the buyer's favour.
This site sampled 434 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written October 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 67 percent of the 100 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
56% start to 3% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 4, 05:53 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
It's a $20 (frequently on sale for much less than that) game that delivers exactly what it says it does. A lot of the negative reviews mention it needing more updates or expansion, but it's a stand-alone single player game. It's not made to be played 50 times through. It looks good, runs well, tells a fun story, and delivers on it's promises. Some gamers are just never satisfied unless they get 5+ years worth of...
2 more reviews
Now that I've figured the mechanics and have played other games with same controls my confusion is not so, well..., confusing. I like the game; quests, crafting, building, etc. It's simpler than some of the FP games and more relaxing than some of them too.
Very enjoyable and relaxing. Fun Game. Over 40 hours in, I notice no bugs so far.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Tribe: Primitive Builder scores 59/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1059900/tribe-primitive-builderReviews 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 Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.