Russian Life Simulator
Worth it · Action · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $0.99.
- Length
- 0.5h
- Value
- $1.98/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 512MB+, 297 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The most realistic simulator of the life of a Russian person. Collect pension from birth, collect bottles to survive and become part of an exciting life-long story.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
December 2022 is where it bottomed out, at $0.28. Its cuts run 51 percent off as a rule. There have been 74 in the 7 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 5 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is cheaper than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Cookie Clicker ($4.99, scores 98) beats it on value, while it beats Clicker Heroes (free, scores 70).
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 15 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2021 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,221 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 406 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 2 of the 15 refunded reviewers were past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 90 percent of the 5,165 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 72 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 0.5 hours; clearing it takes 2, which is 3.0 times the campaign.
The drop-off
39% start to 20% 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
143 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
It's a janky, ridiculously dumb meme clicker where you spend an hour mashing the left mouse button just to collect bottles of vodka. The whole thing is pretty funny at first, but there's not much to the actual gameplay. Once you've seen all the joke upgrades, there isn't really much reason to keep playing. Still, it's an easy 100% if you care about achievements, and it works pretty well as a dumb little gag game...
It is a gag clicker. Cheap 100 achievements and cards, but nothing else. At least it is cheap
A simple but entertaining simulator with a lot of weird and funny moments. The gameplay is easy to get into, and it's worth trying if you like unusual simulation games.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Russian Life Simulator scores 76/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1070330/russian-life-simulatorThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 18, price as of Sep 24.
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