TheoTown
Worth it · Multiplayer · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99.
- Length
- 13.8h
- Value
- $0.72/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Intel Integrated Graphics, 205 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Build and manage your dream city in this captivating simulation game. Create unique urban landscapes and enjoy compatibility with the mobile versions. Unleash your creativity and shape the metropolis of your dreams.
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
May 2022 is where it bottomed out, at $2.71. Its cuts run 40 percent off as a rule. There have been 46 in the 7 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 62 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Factorio ($35.00, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats SimAirport ($24.99, scores 51).
14 of the 522 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 78 percent of the 464 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 13.8 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 79, 5.7 times as much.
The drop-off
61% 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
208 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 15:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Very fun game to play. Peaceful really. Helped a more creative mind understand city building and depth.
I'm having so much fun building my city. i can also wipe my city out with tornadoes 10/10
TheoTown looks like a city builder that could run on a calculator. Then one badly placed intersection turns 50,000 citizens into a municipal hostage situation. You start by zoning a quiet neighbourhood. Soon you are rerouting freight traffic, rebuilding bus lines, fighting pollution, and discovering that emergency services cannot teleport through the traffic jam you created. The pixel art is simple. The simulation...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
TheoTown scores 82/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1084020/theotownReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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