Nebuchadnezzar
Fair · Strategy · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 38h
- Value
- $0.53/hr
- Reviews
- 79% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 3 GB of memory, ATI Radeon HD 6750 / NVIDIA GeForce 320 / Intel HD 4000, 1024MB VRAM required, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
Create and customize cities in Nebuchadnezzar, a classic isometric city-builder where careful planning and define your rise as a ruler in ancient Mesopotamia.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
November 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $5.99. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 34 in the 6 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 11 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 74 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Stronghold Crusader HD (2012) ($9.99, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats Rise of Industry ($29.99, scores 31).
This site sampled 596 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 10 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written February 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 60 percent of the 232 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 38 hours; clearing it takes 97, which is 2.5 times the campaign.
The drop-off
75% 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
15 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 02:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
If you're looking for an older style city builder in the vein of the old Pharoah or Emperor games, this is it. Beautiful polish, no visual or gameplay clutter, 10/10 buy the DLC
Real taxing game, unlike most city builders - the balance of goods vs economy is really sensitive making this game even at "easy" level hard to play, but with persistence you can outsmart it!!
This game is going to make me pull my hair out. I heard it recommended after completing Pharaoh: A New Era (sort of. The game bugged out in the last few missions) so I decided to give it a try. At first, I liked the UI and gameplay even if it was a bit more complicated. But the lack of managing workers in this game absolutely kills it. You can be doing just fine and suddenly nosedive into a death spiral because you...
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Cite this score
Nebuchadnezzar scores 55/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1157220/nebuchadnezzarReviews 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 Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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