Microtopia
Worth it · Strategy · 2025
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Feb 2025.
- Length
- 61.3h
- Value
- $0.16/hr
- Reviews
- 87% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 50% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 5 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 30% ($13.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 50% ($9.99)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, RTX 2060 / RX 5600, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!
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
April 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $9.99. 15 discounts in the 2 years on record. They run about 30 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today's $9.99 at 50 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 87 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 91 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Plan B: Terraform ($15.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Per Aspera ($29.99, scores 41).
Of the 414 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 7 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 76 percent of the 100 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
99% 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
What players say
This game is great. It's a little unusual by factory builder standards, both in premise and execution, but it's absolutely an interesting change of pace. I'm only about half way through a game (with 26hrs at time of review, it's not a fast game) Many of the negative complaints I read before purchasing were, inaccurate to my experiences. Once you start recycling old ants, you start having the issue of too many...
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An excellent game with unusual mechanics. It's a shame it hasn't received more attention. Definitely worth checking out for fans of factory-building games.
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Cite this score
Microtopia scores 74/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2750000/microtopiaReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 2.
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