Dungeon Tycoon
Skip · Strategy · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 42, under the fair line, at $7.49.
- Length
- 5h
- Value
- $1.50/hr
- Reviews
- 76% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 50% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 40% ($8.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 50% ($7.49)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB RAM, 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Build your own dungeon and attract heroes from all over the realm! Grow your business by exploiting every facet of your visitors' dungeon exploration experience. Will you be able to keep your evil dungeon business going?
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
The lowest price on record is $7.49, set in April 2026. It has been discounted 17 times in the 2 years tracked here, typically at 40 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today's $7.49 at 50 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
This sale is doing real work. 36 at list, 42 today.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 26 percent on value. It is pricier than 80 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 62 percent. Synergy ($9.99, scores 45) outscores it, and so does Cliff Empire ($17.99, scores 74). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
Of the 619 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 11 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 64 percent of the 140 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
5 hours to finish it, 12 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.4 times the campaign.
The drop-off
89% start to 5% 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
39 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 17:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Like a highschool romance, it's off to a great start. But by the 2nd or 3rd run, you realise there's no steam left, it's all in the early game. It's September now, and there's been no updates since April 2nd, which is a crying shame. Some work on the mid to end game and this would be a hot seller. Worth it for cheap, and will give you several hours of fun, but sorely lacking in late game.
So after gathering my thoughts, I don't think this is worth it in it's current state. I enjoyed it for a bit, but it doesn't stay very interesting for long. First of all, the dungeon feels tiny, ideally you would have multiple floors or something to make the dungeon feel large, as it stands no, it's mostly a one floor, couple of rooms dungeon, which to me isn't really what a dungeon is, but that might just be my...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Dungeon Tycoon scores 42/100 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/2400770/dungeon-tycoonReviews 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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