Citadelum
Skip · Strategy · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$24.99Skip
On its price record
$19.98Fair
- Length
- 8.2h
- Value
- $3.05/hr
- Reviews
- 84% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 30% ($17.49)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 50% ($12.49)
- Last discount ended
- 16 days ago
Watch it for a saleSources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 or equivalent, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
Citadelum is a city builder set in legendary Ancient Rome. Build your own settlement, gather resources and evolve it into a magnificent city. Explore the world, trade and lead your mighty legions in epic tactical battles. Earn the favor of the Gods or challenge them, if you dare.
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
It has never been cheaper than $9.74. That was March 2026. 16 discounts in the 2 years on record. They run about 35 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.
Value puts it in the top 20 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 86 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Factory Town ($19.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats Ancient Cities ($29.99, scores 11).
This site sampled 467 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 9 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written October 2024 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 70 percent of the 163 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.
8.2 hours to finish it, 31 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.8 times the campaign.
At 8.2 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
60% 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
9 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 04:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Good fun, could have completed it quicker on some maps but wanted to build all the epic buildings. Combat can be easily cheesed by just using horses to kite enemies back and forth infront of archers but otherwise fun :)
全成就20/25 Around 40 hours to enjoy almost all contents, a little too light to me. But it was very nice 40 hours.
I want to like this game. The setting, the aestetics, the pure city building aspect and the building see-throught letting you see your citizen work/live inside are all pleasing. But there are major pain points that ruin the experience for me: - The immigrants arrival rate being on a fixed schelude. New citizens slowly comes one at a time at regular intervals once you have houses for them, and there seems to be no...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Citadelum scores 47/100 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/2603020/citadelumReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.
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