Crush the Industry

Crush the Industry

Fair · Roguelike · 2025

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
2.8h
Value
$5.35/hr
Reviews
90% of 396 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 6 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.

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

Holding it back
Reviews90% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 88% after the small-sample adjustment
Reach10K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$5.35/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds2 of 338 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Work your way to the top of a cutthroat game studio in this retro roguelike deckbuilder! Crush the Industry features strategic combat with a unique twist and deep replayability.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 5000 or better, OpenGL Support required, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

The value story

Across all 22 discounts in the 4 years tracked, the median cut is 35 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 29 percent on value. It is pricier than 64 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 75 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Die in the Dungeon ($8.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers ($14.99, scores 55).

More about Crush the Industry

Of the 338 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2023 to August 2026.

Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 2.8 hours it is short enough to finish on one.

The drop-off

81% start to <1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

What players say

Played with all 5 character and went until Hell 4. Cool game do feel like the build variety is not very big. The humor of the game is cool :)
cunhall74Recommendedafter 12hJun 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews
It's the earthbound comabt system with some minor rouge elemtns mixed. It's pretty good the sound is on point, it looks pretty, runs are short and its really fun to build an absoulte beast that just wrecks through the foes. It is very short and there isn't anything besdie pick a character try to beat the final boss..
SlaughterpuffRecommendedafter 2.2hJan 2026Read on Steam
Good game with great charisma. If you are a developer or work within IT industry, some events or enemies will make you laught.
BlockmanRecommendedafter 3.8hJan 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Crush the Industry scores 63/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1098610/crush-the-industry
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Reviews 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 Oct 2, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperCognoggin Games
PublisherCognoggin Games
GenreRoguelike
Released2025
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements18