The Genesis Project

The Genesis Project

Fair · RPG · 2022 · Early Access

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Free and middling. Worth a look if the genre is yours.

Price
Free to play
Reviews
86% positive
Length
No data
no length in our data yet
$/hr
Free
price ÷ main-story length
Price
Free
Reviews
86%
2,396 reviews, as of Sep 26
Players
150K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2022

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 1GB, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

The Genesis Project is an attempt to replicate Sburb from the popular webcomic Homestuck, made by Andrew Hussie.
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Raising the score
ValueFree
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Holding it back
Reviews86% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 85% after the small-sample adjustment
Reach150K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). A free game has no price to weigh, so this is its value read
Early accessUnfinished
Still in development, a small confidence discount until 1.0
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
RefundsFree
A free game cannot be refunded, so the label never applies
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

Against its own genre it lands in the top 9 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 87 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, SULFUR ($24.99, scores 63) beats it on value, while it beats Spirit Realm ($18.18, scores 29).

26 players were online in it when we last checked, on Sep 26, 13:48 UTC.

Players

26 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 13:48 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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The Genesis Project scores 61/100 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/1610900/the-genesis-project
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26.

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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperPerfectly Generic Team
PublisherPerfectly Generic Team
GenreRPG
Released2022