Main Assembly
Skip · Strategy · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 41, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Reviews
- 83% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 or AMD equivalent, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
You’re the designer, engineer and architect if you can imagine it you can create it! Construct robots of any shape or size from eight-legged spider bots to eerie UFO contraptions.
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
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Strategy game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.99, set in December 2025. 59 discounts in the 6 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 28 percent on value. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 84 percent. Among the games that feel like it, House Flipper 2 ($39.99, scores 55) beats it on value, while it beats Desynced ($29.99, scores 35).
This site sampled 461 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 6 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 65 percent of the 121 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
79% 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
1 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 09:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Main Assembly scores 41/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is estimated at 8 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1078920/main-assemblyReviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 1.
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