Steam Engine Simulator

Steam Engine Simulator

Worth it · Strategy · 2023

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

PLAY IT.

Worth it, and it costs nothing.

PriceS
Free to play
ReviewsS
99% of 9,040
Genre rank
Top 2% Strategy

Time and effort

Main story
0.5h
To 100%
25.4h 50.8x the story
Achievements
18

Players and genre

Online
25 now
Better reviewed
99% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

83% start to 6% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

Against its own genre its score lands in the top 2 percent. It is the best reviewed of its genre. It scores the same as Thrifty Business, which costs $12.99, and this one is free.

It is still busy. 25 players were online when we last checked, on Nov 4, 21:46 UTC, across 35 days of weekly checks.

More about Steam Engine Simulator

Finishing takes 0.5 hours; clearing it takes 25, which is 51 times the campaign.

Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 0.5 hours it is short enough to finish on one.

Buy now or wait

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

What we assumed
  • Player count is unknown. We assumed a small player base, about 500 owners.
Raising the score
Cost per hourFree
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
RefundsFree
A free game cannot be refunded, so the label never applies
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

The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 620. Windows only.

Cite this score

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Steam Engine Simulator scores 81/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. Player count is unknown, so the score assumes a small player base; Steam shows 9,040 reviews, so it has at least that many owners. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2381620/steam-engine-simulator
Embed the live badge

Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Details

DeveloperEktorom Software Inc.
PublisherEktorom Software Inc.
GenreStrategy
Released2023
Achievements18