Utopia Must Fall
Worth it · Roguelike · 2024 · Early Access
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $5.39, at or past its typical seasonal cut of 36%. The Autumn Sale runs to Oct 8.
- Reviews
- 95% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 40% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 36% ($5.75)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 40% ($5.39)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 4000 or equivalent, Integrated cards also work, 246 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Defend humanity's last surviving metropolis from mysterious alien machinations in this challenging base-defense arcade shooter. Featuring rapid upgrade progression, procedurally generated attack waves, dark humor and laser-sharp aesthetics.
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 $4.49. That was January 2025. It has been discounted 19 times in the 2 years tracked here, typically at 30 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today's $5.39 at 40 percent off still sits 20 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 19 percent on value. It is cheaper than 67 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 91 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Nova Drift ($17.99, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats Be My Horde ($9.99, scores 58).
Of the 361 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 93 percent of the 270 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 22 percent of everything written about it.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
The drop-off
65% start to 15% finishA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
13 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 13:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Utopia Must Fall 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/2849680/utopia-must-fallReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 2.
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