Kainga: Seeds of Civilization
Skip · Roguelike · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 40, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 7.1h
- Value
- $2.82/hr
- Reviews
- 76% of 767 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 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
About the game
Welcome to the mystical world of Kainga, an unusual roguelite village-builder! Take control of a Thinker and, with the help of your people, grow a unique town to complete short challenges while discovering the world and adapting to the pressures of the environment, beasts and other tribes.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 512MB VRAM, OpenGL 3.0 support, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 35 times in the 5 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 35 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 82 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 64 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Odd Realm ($19.99, scores 58) beats it on value, while it beats Pile Up! ($4.99, scores 33).
More about Kainga: Seeds of Civilization
Of the 460 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 4 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2021 to August 2026.
The drop-off
46% start to 2% 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
What players say
Kainga is a cute little game with interesting ideas but hollow implementation. The Roguelite aspects are out of the picture once you max out your thinker memories and are able to favorite your preferred blueprints. There are a lot of little bugs that are not always game-breaking but more than frustrating, to say the least. The beginning stages are repetitive and become a chore, and once the game gets more fun, you...
2 more reviews, 2 not recommended
If you'd asked me this before June 2025, I would have wholly recommended it. However, in it's current state after the last major update, sadly, I can't today. The game is a fun rogue-like City builder-RTS hybrid, that leans more in the RTS direction. It has a compelling gameplay loop that kept you going in for more as rogue-lites should do. Sure the game had it's bugs and design flaws then too, like unit controls...
I've put a good amount of time into this game, and I really wish I could give it a positive review due to how unique it is, but I simply cant. Each and every run is filled with bugs, some game ending, runs that are cursed due to no resources, spawning right next to hostile towns, "RNG" events that will target only your town, enemies that are immortal and so can destroy your entire town solo, and god knows how many...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Kainga: Seeds of Civilization scores 40/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1269710/kainga-seeds-of-civilizationReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.