Mindustry
BANGER · Strategy · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
A BANGER today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 55% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$9.99BANGER
Typical seasonal cut
$3.9960% offBANGER
- Cost per hourS
- $0.48/hr
- ReviewsS
- 96% of 28,697
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Strategy
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 20.9h
- To 100%
- 73.4h 3.5x the story
- Achievements
- 87
Price and sales
- Sales
- 29 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $2.99 December 2019
- Sale every
- 84d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 822 now
- Recent reviews
- 96% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 29% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
75% start to <1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 29 times in the 7 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 1 percent. It is pricier than 71 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 Vectorio Classic (free, scores 79).
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $27.29. It costs $9.99.
More about Mindustry
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 20 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2024 to October 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,604 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,088 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 79 percent of the 1,172 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 20.9 hours. Doing everything runs 73, 3.5 times as long.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 29 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Mindustry is a classic, but let's be real: it's less of a tactical puzzle and more of an endurance test. It blends RTS and automation beautifully, but its main feature is making time stand still. Warning: raising the difficulty doesn't make the AI clever, it just makes the maps exponentially longer. If you've always wanted an RTS match to last a casual four hours, this is your holy grail.
2 more reviews
If you've played the mobile version of the game, it's basically exactly the same. Overall, it's similar to games like Factory Town, but in my opinion, the enemy bases suddenly become much harder. When you return to the same base, all the useless stuff is still intact while the important parts are gone, which is honestly ridiculous. Also, the raid times are way too short.
BEST GAME EVER!!!! I've been playing for 11 years and I've been hooked the whole time. It might be too addictive, so don't get it if you have school or a full time job (still do though). It doesn't even come close to any other games, its so good.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Any card with OpenGL 2.0 support and the framebuffer_object extension, 205 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Mindustry scores 96/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1127400/mindustryReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 8, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.