Dream Engines: Nomad Cities
Skip · Roguelike · 2024
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 31, under the fair line, at $11.99.
- Length
- 30h 200h to 100%
- Value
- $0.40/hr
- Reviews
- 73% of 624 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
It is 60% off today.
Discounted in each 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
A survival city-building game with flying cities. Build, automate, and defend a flying city that travels between procedurally generated maps to survive in a wacky, nightmare-infested, post-apocalyptic world full of strange science and dreams.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, DirectX 11 GPU with 2GB of memory (GTX 660 or better). Windows only.
The value story
Across all 50 discounts in the 5 years tracked, the median cut is 25 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $11.99 at 60 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 76 percent. Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation ($6.99, scores 59) outscores it, and so does Going Medieval ($29.99, scores 67). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Dream Engines: Nomad Cities
Of the 448 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2021 to August 2026.
HowLongToBeat players log 30 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 200, 6.7 times as much.
The drop-off
29% start to <1% 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
- 3 when we last checked, on Oct 14, 16:51 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
While I would love to give this game glowing praise Since I do like it I would give it a 75/100 I can only highlight the positives and negatives and the issues with some of the reviews I read. The positive: -Unique, the concept of moving the base constantly to escape the increasing difficulty is a nice one that forces the player to adapt to new resources and redesign their micro factory to build the things that map...
2 more reviews
Dream Engines: Nomad Cities is a city-building survival strategy game developed by Suncrash and published by Suncrash alongside Gamera Games, blending automation management, exploration, combat, and resource logistics into a distinctive experience centered around mobility. While many city builders focus on constructing massive settlements designed to stand permanently against hardship, this game approaches survival...
This game is good, and for some weird reason there is a lot of reviews complaining that its not like other games? Like yes, that's the whole point of it being a different game. There is 2 problems with this game, only 1 being permanent, other being a challenge. - Map exploration/clearing is extremely tedious and repetitive/boring/slow. There is practically no way to speed this up at any point in the game. - The...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Dream Engines: Nomad Cities scores 31/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1076750/dream-engines-nomad-citiesReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base 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.