Earth 2160
Skip · Strategy · 2006
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $9.99.
- Length
- 22.7h
- Value
- $0.44/hr
- Reviews
- 73% positive
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Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
After the destruction of the EARTH in 2150, the leaders of the Eurasian Dynasty escaped on board an evacuation fleet. Now they are fighting for the survival of the human species. Their base is one large building comprising of smaller variable parts.
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The value story
September 2016 is where it bottomed out, at $0.59. Its cuts run 60 percent off as a rule. There have been 113 in the 14 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 2 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 37 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 70 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Supreme Commander ($12.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats The Crust ($20.79, scores 34).
2 of the 275 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to July 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 45 percent of the 209 reviews written there were positive, against 73 percent overall, and those are 28 percent of everything written about it.
Players
4 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Keeps the wolves of boredom at bay for a few hours. Good gameplay, if somewhat routine.
It's a game that has some extremely genius design buried under terrible quality of life and general gameplay issues. Apart from the obnoxious registration upon first startup, there is a lot of good and a lot of bad here. I've never seen faction design this inspired, especially in terms of base building/space management. Vehicles are modular, based on what faction you play you might need different armor or weapons...
Earth 2160 , on its own, is a broken vestige of an RTS from the mid-2000s with units that difficult to distinguish from another without microscope, unofficial patches to get the video game to operate relatively smoothly on modern devices, terrible voice acting and dialogue, and crackbrained Friendly AI that will allow enemies to mow them down due to the building they are hunkered down in lowering their firing range...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Earth 2160 scores 36/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1900/earth-2160The BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 3, price as of Sep 24.
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