Offworld Trading Company

Offworld Trading Company

Skip · Strategy · 2016

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 31, under the fair line, at $29.99. Price from Oct 22.

Reviews▼
77% of 5,727
Critics
78 players 1 lower
Genre rank
Top 47% Strategy

Holding it back: Reviews, Length unknown

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Time and effort

Achievements
255

Price and sales

Sales
48 on record
Typical cut
50% off
Steam low
$6.00 February 2019
Sale every
42d last October 2026
All-time low $2.40 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
34 now
Cheaper than
3% of its genre
Better reviewed
69% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

67% start to 1% 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

The lowest price on record is $6.00, set in February 2019. 48 discounts in the 12 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart.

Its score sits in the top 47 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 69 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Before We Leave ($4.99, scores 53) beats it on value, while it beats Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt ($3.99, scores 29).

More about Offworld Trading Company

2 of the 469 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 46 percent of the 298 reviews written there were positive, against 77 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.

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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
  • How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. The score is docked for the missing length.
Holding it back
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Length unknownNo verified $/hr
No length in our data yet, so the biggest driver can't be verified. A heavy dock until it is
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds2 of 469 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

Mars has been colonized, and Earth's corporate titans fight to dominate this new market. Competition is fierce in this fast-paced economic RTS from Civilization IV Lead Designer, Soren Johnson.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT / ATI Radeon HD 3870 / Intel HD Graphics 4600, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

No data upstream: length (HowLongToBeat).

Cite this score

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Offworld Trading Company scores 31/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. Length is not in our data, so the score is docked. Price last read Oct 22. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/271240/offworld-trading-company
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Reviews set the ceiling. With no length in our data, value sits at a neutral middle whatever the price, and the BANG Score is docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Oct 22. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players-1
Critics78
Players77
Metacritic critics · 5,727 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperMohawk Games
PublisherStardock Entertainment
GenreStrategy
Released2016
Players150Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements255