Settlement Survival
Worth it · Strategy · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99.
- Length
- 30h
- Value
- $0.67/hr
- Reviews
- 85% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVDIA Geforce GTX-650 1GB, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.
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 $4.99. That was June 2026. 42 discounts in the 5 years on record. They run about 45 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 3 percent on value. It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. The nearest things to it, The Crust ($31.99, scores 28) and Foundation ($34.99, scores 58), are both worse buys on this math.
15 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 58 percent of the 538 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 30 hours. Doing everything runs 128, 4.3 times as long.
The drop-off
65% start to 2% 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
279 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 12:54 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Don't bother with this game at all, there are way better alternatives on the market. Which are even in early acces nova roma for example Bought this game for 5 bucks and i even ended up feeling cheated, say's enough really
Undisclosed use of AI, didn't even get out of the tutorial before it appeared. Immediately applied for a refund
As someone who grew up on Age of Empires type games, I've been thoroughly enjoying the challenged of this game. ♥
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Settlement Survival scores 71/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1509510/settlement-survivalReviews 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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