Circle Empires Rivals

Circle Empires Rivals

Worth it · Multiplayer · 2020

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $15.99.

Reviews
90% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Price
$15.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
90%
1,977 reviews, as of Sep 26
Players
350K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2020
Length + $/hr
No data
no length in our data yet
Completionist
48.5h
100% (HowLongToBeat)

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Intel/AMD Integrated Graphics, 1GB VRAM, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.

In this fast-paced multiplayer RTS, you and your friends will take control of your own tiny kingdoms and conquer a world made of circles. Each one is overflowing with enemies to fight, monsters to hunt and loot to hoard – but watch out... Friends can quickly become rivals!
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Raising the score
Reviews90% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 89% after the small-sample adjustment
Holding it back
Reach350K+ 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
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds2 of 458 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

The value story

It has never been cheaper than $4.79. That was November 2024. It has been discounted 72 times in the 6 years tracked here, typically at 60 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales.

Value puts it in the top 4 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 82 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Splitgate (free, scores 81) beats it on value, while it beats Predecessor (free, scores 28).

Of the 458 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 70 percent of the 141 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

89% start to 2% 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

Players

4 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 01:48 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Circle Empires Rivals scores 71/100 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/1100260/circle-empires-rivals
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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 Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.

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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperLuminous
PublisherIceberg Interactive
GenreMultiplayer
Released2020
Achievements118