SteamWorld Build
Skip · Strategy · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 49, under the fair line, at $24.99.
- Length
- 9.1h
- Value
- $2.75/hr
- Reviews
- 85% positive
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely between Oct 13 and Oct 26, at about $4.99 (80% off). Calls like this were right 78% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks. Its own discounts have started about 45 days apart.
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
- 80% ($4.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 85% ($3.74)
- Last discount ended
- 6 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
SteamWorld Build is a casual city-building and dungeon-management cross-over set in the SteamWorld Universe, where you build and manage a town on a dying planet. You'll need to balance resources, construction, and exploration to its depths to ensure your town's survival and eventual escape.
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 $3.74. That was March 2026. 28 discounts in the 3 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 6 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 16 percent on value. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 87 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Fabledom ($20.99, scores 59) beats it on value, while it beats Park Beyond ($29.99, scores 12).
11 of the 606 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 58 percent of the 148 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
9.1 hours to finish it, 33 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.6 times the campaign.
The drop-off
80% 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
What players say
This is like a lukewarm recommendation. There's a lot to like about this game, it's light and fun and rolls out the advancement tree at a pace where there doesn't seem to be an overwhelming amount to do at any given time. That said there are some odd game choices, like there are things you need that you just have to buy to keep your citizens happy, you can't find them in the world, which feels strange.
1. Visuals - mush of same'y colors and it's hard to tell which building does what on the ground floor. Annoying as hell 2. Not much of a challenge on ground floor except of space to build. Feels like it was artificially restricted. 3. Basically a mobile like interface. 4. Robots feels like caricature humans with caricature human needs. You could go wild with imagination, but nooo - robots need robot cows to eat in...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Cite this score
SteamWorld Build scores 49/100 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/2134770/steamworld-buildReviews 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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