
7 Wonders: Ancient Alien Makeover
Fair · Strategy · 2012
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 5.8h 11.6h to 100%
- Value
- $1.72/hr
- Reviews
- 86% of 314 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $3.29 (67% off). Calls like this were right 89% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
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
About the game
The long-standing 7 Wonders series keeps getting better and better! The fifth installment, 7 Wonders: Ancient Alien Makeover, adds an entirely new game component, new Wonders and a new and exciting material – Alien Energy!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 128 MB, 205 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 47 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 60 percent, about 13 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 9 percent on value. It is pricier than 70 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 86 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Bejeweled® 3 ($4.99, scores 96) beats it on value, while it beats You Must Build A Boat ($4.99, scores 56).
More about 7 Wonders: Ancient Alien Makeover
Finishing takes 5.8 hours; clearing it takes 12, which is 2.0 times the campaign.
The drop-off
86% start to 24% 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
- Players online
- 5 when we last checked, on Oct 14, 05:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This is the last game my grandpa played before passing away. The 7 Wonders games are the games he spent the most time in when gaming and he loved them. I'm planning to play and 100% the game at some point as a way to honor him and I'm looking forward to it. But that's beside the point and irrelevant to the review. Personally, I think the gameplay loop can be addicting and I like it a lot. While I don't have a lot of...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
7 Wonders: Ancient Alien Makeover scores 59/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/223000/7-wonders-ancient-alien-makeoverReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.
