Thriving City: Song
Skip · Strategy · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 44, under the fair line, at $12.34.
- Reviews
- 81% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 35% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 7 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 30% ($13.29)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 35% ($12.34)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, nVIDIA GeForce GTX 750ti, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
In 960 AD, the new Song Dynasty needs you! As magistrate, build a prosperous city from scratch. Develop bustling streets filled with businesses and entertainment, while navigating hidden crises of political strife and foreign invasions. How will you lead through these challenges?
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
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Strategy game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $12.34, set in November 2025. Its cuts run 25 percent off as a rule. There have been 31 in the 3 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $12.34 at 35 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
On value it sits in the top 24 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 81 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Havendock ($19.99, scores 54) beats it on value, while it beats Immortal Family ($13.99, scores 0).
9 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 74 percent of the 280 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
48% start to <1% 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
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Thriving City: Song scores 44/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is estimated at 8 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1956800/thriving-city-songReviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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