New Cycle
Skip · Strategy · 2024 · Early Access
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 33, under the fair line, at $29.99.
- Reviews
- 79% positive
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely between Oct 14 and Oct 27, at about $14.99 (50% off). Calls like this were right 73% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks. Its own discounts have started about 52 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
- 50% ($14.99)
- Last discount ended
- 18 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 960 (4GB VRAM) | AMD Radeon R9 290 (4GB VRAM) or equivalent, 12 GB of storage. Windows only.
New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.
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. The score is docked for the missing length.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $14.99, set in January 2025. 24 discounts in the 3 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
On value it sits in the top 43 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 76 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Endzone - A World Apart ($24.99, scores 46) beats it on value, while it beats Endzone 2 ($29.99, scores 13).
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 22 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2024 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 610 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 62 percent of the 370 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
89% start to 2% 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
New Cycle scores 33/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is not in our data, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2198510/new-cycleReviews set the ceiling. With no length in our data, value sits at a neutral middle whatever the price, and the BANG Score is 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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