Construction Simulator
Fair · Strategy · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $24.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 53.5h
- Value
- $0.47/hr
- Reviews
- 81% positive
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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.
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What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $7.49. That was May 2026. It has been discounted 30 times in the 4 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 8 percent on value. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 80 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Gas Station Simulator ($8.99, scores 61) beats it on value, while it beats Farming Simulator 25 ($29.99, scores 47).
This site sampled 799 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 32 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2025 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,864 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 642 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 40 percent of the 961 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 9 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.
The drop-off
71% 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
310 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
I love this game a lot so far and its really fun but please update the Ai traffic, I could be going 'bout 70 mph in a semi and they will just pull out infront of me.
This game is not what people say it is. I thought it would be fun and simple, but the instructions are absolute trash, and the game won't allow me to persist on my first job. This definetly explains why it was 70% off.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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Construction Simulator scores 59/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1273400/construction-simulatorThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 19, price as of Sep 24.
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