Circus Electrique
Skip · RPG · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 37, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 18.2h
- Value
- $1.10/hr
- Reviews
- 74% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 65% ($6.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 75% ($4.99)
- Last discount ended
- 10 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, AMD Radeon HD 5770 or NVIDIA GeForce GT 740, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
Circus Electrique is part story-driven RPG, part tactics, part circus management, and completely enthralling– all with a steampunk twist. When everyday Londoners mysteriously turn into vicious killers, only the show’s talented performers possess the skills necessary to save the city.
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
April 2023 is where it bottomed out, at $4.99. It has been discounted 23 times in the 4 years tracked here, typically at 65 percent off, with about 9 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 10 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 36 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Expeditions: Rome ($44.99, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats Lost Eidolons ($34.99, scores 22).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 11 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On an 18.2-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 257 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 3 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written September 2022 to July 2026.
18.2 hours to finish it, 38 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.1 times the campaign.
The drop-off
96% start to 11% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Circus Electrique scores 37/100 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/1666250/circus-electriqueReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 1.
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