Ratropolis
Worth it · Roguelike · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $17.99.
- Length
- 3.9h
- Value
- $4.61/hr
- Reviews
- 88% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 512MB Video Ram., 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
A fusion of roguelite, tower defense, city-building, and deck-building! We created a new kind of real time strategy game filled with addictive and fast-paced gameplay. Create your deck, defend your city, and build the largest Ratropolis in history!
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
The lowest price on record is $4.49, set in April 2025. Its cuts run 40 percent off as a rule. There have been 46 in the 7 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 27 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 72 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 71 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Cat God Ranch ($5.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers ($14.99, scores 55).
14 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 59 percent of the 347 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
90% start to 13% finishA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
23 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 05:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Every iteration of the version brings many new design ideas, but also a lot of disappointing ones. For me, the early versions had very straightforward gameplay mechanics, providing pure joy, but now the overly complex build system makes it impossible for me to complete a game simply. It's not that I'm unwilling to experience it, but rather that there are too many mechanisms and contents that this game wants to...
Okay. I REALLY want to like this game but there are some pretty big flaws in the way things work... and if not flaws some MAJOR QOL needs to happen. The biggest thing is that once the wall closes to your fort falls, you have no way to send troops quickly towards your fort to defend it. Before the walls fall, you can click the wall and move all the units either left or right to other walls to reinforce them. AFTER...
I bought it on sale and it was definitely worth it for me. You have multiple options to run your economy and each leader results in a different build and theres quite some cards and new things to unlock. I'd recommend it if you like tower defense and are ok with a fast paced gameplay. However, if you want aslow paced gameplay where you can observe in peace, you will be disappointed. Also, unit movement can be a bit...
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Cite this score
Ratropolis scores 68/100 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/1108370/ratropolisReviews 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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