Cataclismo
Fair · Strategy · 2025
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $29.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 17.2h
- Value
- $1.74/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 (2 GB) / AMD Radeon R9 270X (2 GB), 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.
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
It has never been cheaper than $14.99. That was May 2026. It has been discounted 21 times in the 2 years tracked here, typically at 40 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 6 percent on value. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Empires of the Undergrowth ($29.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats Manor Lords ($39.99, scores 45).
Of the 738 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 20 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 72 percent of the 401 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
17.2 hours to finish it, 39 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.3 times the campaign.
The drop-off
79% 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
34 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 09:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Please for the love of god, fix the enemy pathing and map layout in Old kingdom Game is fun, Old Kingdom is fun but jesus having the enemy undertake some bs cross map adventure to avoid my walls in this game of building walls is boring, extremely unsatisfying, frustrating and just makes me not want to play, As any walls I build are next to useless unless its either so close to the border I'm spawn camping or so...
I've been playing cataclismo since August 2024, and its a game which sucks you in with its great atmosphere and world building. Loved the concept and is always a great replay. With that said, there are a few things I would hope the devs will consider incorporating/fixing in the DLC: Old Kingdoms, such as: 1. Being able to continue the gameplay in the DLC: old kingdoms after completing the final attacks; 2. Adding in...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Cataclismo scores 64/100 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/1422440/cataclismoReviews 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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