Highrise City
Skip · Strategy · 2023
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 31, under the fair line, at $29.99.
- Reviews
- 77% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 760 Ti, 25 GB of storage. Windows only.
Highrise City offers a new spin on City Simulations & Tycoon games expanding the economy and resource management aspect. Experience a modern take on the genre enriched with a complex resource based economy system.
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
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. The score is docked for the missing length.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $11.99, set in June 2026. It has been discounted 27 times in the 5 years tracked here, typically at 25 percent off, with about 10 weeks between sales.
Value puts it in the top 47 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 69 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Settlement Survival ($19.99, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats Ancient Cities ($29.99, scores 11).
12 of the 582 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 55 percent of the 191 reviews written there were positive, against 77 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
59% 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
8 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 18:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Highrise City scores 31/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is not in our data, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1489970/highrise-cityReviews set the ceiling. With no length in our data, value sits at a neutral middle whatever the price, and the BANG Score is docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 1.
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