Citystate II
Skip · Strategy · 2021
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 32, under the fair line, at $24.99.
- Length
- 16.1h
- Value
- $1.55/hr
- Reviews
- 74% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GTX 660 or equivalent, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
Create your own Nation, build cities and bring prosperity to your people. Citystate II is a unique city-builder featuring realistic economics and complex political options. Slums or skyscrapers, experiment and bring about your vision of the ideal society.
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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $7.49, set in September 2025. 24 discounts in the 5 years on record. They run about 55 percent off, roughly 9 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 43 percent on value. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre. On the same math Tropico 6 ($39.99, scores 71) and NIMBY Rails ($19.99, scores 75) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
11 of the 586 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 46 percent of the 157 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
54% 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
7 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 19:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
dude went from sim city 3 mechanics to sim city 4 mechanics and is now going to a modern city builder. dude is insane. love the concept and love the game, can't wait for metropolis to be released.
Visually it is stunning, but it suffers from a lack of transportation types, expenses management, and more advanced piping and energy infrastructure game mechanics... There are some nice policy options, but cultural things (such as religion and political affiliations), just like everything else, are shallow and overly simplified.
I wanted to like Citystate II, but it got boring much faster than I expected. The biggest issue is that it feels like nothing you do really matters. The game tracks a huge number of statistics, but very few of them seem to have any meaningful impact on gameplay. Resources and people often feel like they're just magically teleported from one place to another, which makes the simulation feel shallow instead of...
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Cite this score
Citystate II scores 32/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1352850/citystate-iiReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.
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