Reus
Fair · Strategy · 2013
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $3.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 8.1h
- Value
- $0.49/hr
- Reviews
- 78% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, DirectX10(R) compatible card with 512MB of memory, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
In Reus, you control powerful giants to shape the planet to your will. You can create mountains, oceans, forests and more. Enrich your planet with plants, minerals and animal life. There is only one thing on the planet that you do not control: mankind, with all their virtues and and all their vices.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.99. That was November 2019. It has been discounted 90 times in the 13 years tracked here, typically at 60 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today's $3.99 at 60 percent off still sits 303 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 11 percent on value. It is pricier than 70 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 72 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Craft The World ($18.99, scores 77) beats it on value, while it beats The Tenants ($19.99, scores 49).
This site sampled 623 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 12 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,864 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 495 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 57 percent of the 1,244 reviews written there were positive, against 78 percent overall, and those are 25 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 8.1 hours. Doing everything runs 68, 8.4 times as long.
The drop-off
92% 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
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
Reus is a charming god simulator where you shape the fate of civilizations with giant elemental hands. It's cozy, it's endearing, and then the era timer reminds you that divinity has deadlines. Positives: + Beautifully simple yet deep god sim mechanics. + Watching civilizations grow under your guidance is oddly satisfying. + The charm of the art style makes divine punishment feel wholesome. + Replayability-every...
It takes a bit of time to get the hang of the game mechanics, but as soon as I grasped it, it was very addictive. Be ready to punish these greedy humans from time to time :D There are some challenge achievements which required to go rather focused through a 60 min session, but these were totally doable.
It's so slow. falling asleep waiting for indicators of things. the abilities, adjacencies, terrain all stem from a confusing jumble of icons you get from selecting those giant things. And they all either destroy or help each other. you'll have to figure it out on a per item basis, cause it only tells you about a few of them. I didn't even get into the extra little bits that it says are there, but you have to...
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.
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Reus scores 55/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/222730/reusThe 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 16, price as of Sep 24.
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