Offworld Trading Company
Skip · Strategy · 2016
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $29.99.
- Reviews
- 77% positive
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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.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. The score is docked for the missing length.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $6.00, set in February 2019. 47 discounts in the 12 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 49 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 68 percent. Among the games that feel like it, ISLANDERS ($4.99, scores 92) beats it on value, while it beats Cosmonautica ($9.99, scores 2).
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.
The drop-off
67% start to 1% 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
28 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
Cite this score
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Offworld Trading Company scores 30/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). Length is not in our data, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/271240/offworld-trading-companyThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 2, price as of Aug 29.
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