Ozymandias: Bronze Age Empire Sim
Worth it · Strategy · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.49, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Oct 2022.
- Length
- 41.6h
- Value
- $0.11/hr
- Reviews
- 88% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 70% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 60% ($5.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 70% ($4.49)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel HD 4600 or equivalent, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Build an empire in a single sitting. All the strategy of a classic 4X in a faster format, which also shines in multiplayer.
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 $4.49. That was April 2026. Its cuts run 45 percent off as a rule. There have been 37 in the 4 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $4.49 at 70 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
On value it sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 81 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Heart of the Machine ($29.99, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats Millennia ($39.99, scores 14).
Of the 439 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 78 percent of the 109 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
15% start to 4% 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
55 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 20:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Very well constructed game. I've never run into bugs or performance issues, and the game design feels like it all just makes sense. Obviously fun in a board game way too! I recommend it.
Very simple but hard to master at times. Who knew such a simple game I could spend days on. Wish the win conditions were more custom at times sometimes short but not a grind. This critism is me being picky so simple but enjoyable.
Can't recommend at all. The gameplay is totally clumsy and highly illogical. This has absolutely nothing to do with a 4X strategy game, it's much more akin to mobile games were you push sliders around. Even on low difficulties, the computer always seems to cheat. It's faster at expanding, faster at achieving goals, all the while it also has more military power, all of which is contradicting itself because you as the...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Ozymandias: Bronze Age Empire Sim scores 75/100 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/1768280/ozymandias-bronze-age-empire-simReviews 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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