Before We Leave
Fair · Strategy · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 16.9h
- Value
- $0.30/hr
- Reviews
- 78% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti or AMD Radeon HD 4890, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Before We Leave is a city building game set in a cozy corner of the universe. Nurture your Peeps and their surroundings while rebuilding and rediscovering civilisation. Settle new lands and planets while avoiding hungry Space Whales.
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
The value story
March 2023 is where it bottomed out, at $4.99. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 47 in the 5 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 13 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 72 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Planet Zoo ($13.49, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Farm Manager 2018 ($1.79, scores 33).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 3 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 16.9-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 579 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 7 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 56 percent of the 188 reviews written there were positive, against 78 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
66% start to 3% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 16.9-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
17 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 14:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
When Simcity and Civilization have a kid and he wants to become an astronaut. If you like the parents, you will probably enjoy this offspring.
fun, chill game for a quick little playthrough. Good for a quiet weekend, probably wouldnt play it again, but it was good for one run. Wishlisting the sequel
As with most city builders, it starts out fine but then gets tied up in knots of "you can't do this, you can't do that." I'm tired of trying to untangle all the requirements to do the next thing.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Before We Leave scores 53/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1073910/before-we-leaveReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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