Imagine Earth
Skip · Strategy · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 49, under the fair line, at $24.99.
- Length
- 14.3h
- Value
- $1.75/hr
- Reviews
- 82% positive
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely between Oct 11 and Oct 24, at about $7.24 (71% off). Calls like this were right 73% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks. Its own discounts have started about 48 days apart.
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 65% ($8.74)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 70% ($7.49)
- Last discount ended
- 21 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, DirectX 11 compliant graphics card with 1GB dedicated memory, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Build your own global colonies on distant worlds. Manage energy and resource supplies and produce goods for space trade. Form economic and diplomatic alliances or take over competing corporations. Conduct research to protect your colonists from disasters and avoid a climate crisis.
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
August 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $7.24. 92 discounts in the 12 years on record. They run about 40 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
On value it sits in the top 16 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 81 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Before We Leave ($4.99, scores 53) beats it on value, while it beats Ancient Cities ($29.99, scores 11).
11 of the 408 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 278 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. Inside the two-hour refund window, 40 percent of the 136 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 17 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 14.3 hours; clearing it takes 43, which is 3.0 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 14.3 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
48% 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
I liked the theme of the campaign; nice characters and story. It is ironic that the message of this game is sustainability, but I really never looked at the CO2/water levels once after first mission. Only when visiting the Challenge Map - to compare your score vs other players - a green transition was needed, to make the game last long enough so I could increase the company's value / points.
It's rather basic, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. Perhaps I'm biased towards space exploration and colony builders. The visuals are appealing, and I like how quick a session can be. So many things could have been better, though. The factions feel exactly the same. It would have been more fun if they had special tech or some unique buildings and bonuses. Speaking of tech, the tree is very simple, and the way the...
Imagine Earth is a planetary city-building and economic simulation developed and published by Serious Bros. that blends classic management mechanics with a thoughtful focus on environmental sustainability and corporate expansion across the galaxy. Instead of building a city on a flat map like many traditional strategy games, the game presents fully simulated spherical planets that players can rotate, zoom into, and...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Imagine Earth scores 49/100 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/280720/imagine-earthReviews 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 1.
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