Settlemoon

Settlemoon

Fair · Strategy · 2023

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
9.9h
Value
$1.51/hr
Reviews
86% of 287 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
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 $7.49 (50% 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 9 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

Holding it back
Value$1.51/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews86% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 84% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds2 of 259 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
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

After the moon vanished, the fantasy world of Settlemoon lays abandoned in darkness. Re-light the skies, and provide a rest stop for adventurers in a town that updates in real time. Grow your town to attract strange visitors, and discover happened to this world.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 102 MB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

15 discounts in the 3 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 13 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.

Value puts it in the top 10 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 80 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 87 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. (the) Gnorp Apologue ($6.99, scores 83) and Digseum ($2.99, scores 97) both outscore it.

More about Settlemoon

2 of the 259 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2023 to August 2026.

At 9.9 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.

The drop-off

92% start to 4% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

What players say

Wonderful idle game, beautiful art and music and with far more to it than is usual for idle games. In truth it'd earn top marks simply for being in this genre without being crammed full of ads, the fact that it's a genuinely good game in its own right is just some really delightful icing on the top. It can be a bit hard to piece together some of the mechanics given the artistic (and very intriguing) decision to...
LitmauthorRecommendedafter 14hJul 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews
Settlemoon, developed and published by Lepioid LLC, is a tranquil and imaginative town-building experience that blends idle mechanics with a cozy, reflective atmosphere. Set in a world where the moon has mysteriously vanished and plunged the land into darkness, the game invites players to rebuild light and life from the remnants of a fading world. Rather than following a traditional narrative or gameplay loop...
xxadonisxxRecommendedafter 14hOct 2025Read on Steam
Genuinely interesting and fairly unique game that encourages you to engage with its systems and mechanics blindly to discover just what they are and how they function. At its roughest, it can be hard to decipher exactly what's going on, but eventually, everything sort of settles into place. Settlemoon doesn't demand a lot of your time, and even encourages you to hop off the game rather than leave it open. It becomes...
BradhandlerRecommendedafter 27hJul 2025Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Settlemoon scores 58/100 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/2443780/settlemoon
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Reviews 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.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperLepioid LLC
PublisherLepioid LLC
GenreStrategy
Released2023
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements33