Construction Simulator
Fair · Strategy · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 60% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$24.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$2.4990% offFair
- Cost per hourS
- $0.47/hr
- Reviews▼
- 80% of 15,345
- Genre rank
- Top 11% Strategy
Holding it back: DRM, Recent reviews
Recent reviews trending down: 69% over the last 30 days against 80% all-time.
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.49 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 53.5h
- To 100%
- 208.9h 3.9x the story
- Achievements
- 33
Price and sales
- Sales
- 31 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $2.49 October 2026
- Sale every
- 42d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 976 now
- Recent reviews
- 69% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 5% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 79% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
68% 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 31 times in the 4 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 6 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 11 percent. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 79 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Gas Station Simulator ($8.99, scores 61) beats it on value, while it beats ContractVille ($9.99, scores 54).
More about Construction Simulator
Players rate it 80 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 69 percent. Something recent has soured the room. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 32 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written February 2026 to November 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,604 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 568 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 37 percent of the 1,135 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 53.5 hours; clearing it takes 209, which is 3.9 times the campaign.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 31 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
Decently fun game overall as long as you forget the DRIVING. F#ck that. The driving alone brings this game down to a 2/10 max.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
If you enjoy automotive simulators/games like Snowrunner, Excebition, Muddrunner and Farming Simulator then you will enjoy this game. With my current PC configuration and an X-Box controller operations are smooth and predictable. Excellent graphics and extremely rarely any glitches or crashes.
"I'd rather try to peel apart Legos that are stuck together with my fingernails than play this game." I almost never write reviews, but this game was frustrating enough that I wanted to warn people. I bought Construction Simulator on sale and spent 1.4 hours trying to finish the first level, which is building a pool. I even got two friends to join me because I figured co-op would make it fun. It didn't. We started...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Construction Simulator has returned – larger and more impressive than ever! Fulfil your ambition to become a successful construction entrepreneur by establishing your business from scratch, assisted by your mentor Hape.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 960 (4GB) or AMD Radeon Pro 570 (4GB) or comparable, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Construction Simulator scores 58/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1273400/construction-simulatorReviews 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 Oct 16, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.