Tile Cities

Tile Cities

Worth it · Strategy · 2022

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $2.99, a BANGER if it drops to $2.05.

Length
1h
Value
$2.99/hr
Reviews
94% of 576 positive
It needs 31% off ($2.05) to be a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.05 or less.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

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
Reviews94% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 92% after the small-sample adjustment
Holding it back
Value$2.99/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds2 of 329 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Tile Cities turns city-building experience into a simple relaxing puzzle game and does so with style
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: Anything with OpenGL 3.3 support. Windows only.

The value story

Across all 36 discounts in the 4 years tracked, the median cut is 35 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Past sales have already crossed the $2.05 BANGER line 18 times.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 2 percent on value. It is cheaper than 81 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Dorfromantik ($13.99, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats Pan'orama ($13.99, scores 76).

More about Tile Cities

Of the 329 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 91 percent of the 191 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 35 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

83% start to 3% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

Players online
2 when we last checked, on Oct 8, 05:54 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

Nice and relaxing indie game. I loved the depth simple mechanics bring and the sandbox mode too. <3 much support for the dev to continue
2021840031Recommendedafter 8.0hAug 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews
Easily one of the Chillest "simcity"/Skylines - Likes. Just fit the shape, but know what your city needs with what you got, and place it where it has to go. I think i'm at a ridiculous spot (It's been a while), i don't want my city to die ;_;
ShaggyRecommendedafter 17hJul 2026Read on Steam
Cool game. Gets a bit repetitive and easy the longer you play. But an interesting concept nevertheless. A bit Tetris-like, but interesting
sPYfromFranikRecommendedafter 6.2hApr 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Tile Cities scores 79/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1957990/tile-cities
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Reviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

Developeryevhen8
Publisheryevhen8
GenreStrategy
Released2022
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements9