JudgeSim
Fair · Strategy · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Fair at $3.49, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Jul 2024. Buy it now if you want it.
- Length
- 2.8h
- Value
- $1.25/hr
- Reviews
- 85% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 50% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 40% ($4.19)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 50% ($3.49)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 950 or Intel HD Graphics 620, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
Things were worse than ever in Banana Republic, a somber island country. While anarchists roamed the streets, corruption was running deeper due to economic crisis and rising crime rates. Bearing these burdens were "judges" who tried to make things right with honesty...
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 $3.49. That was June 2025. Its cuts run 40 percent off as a rule. There have been 11 in the 2 years tracked, about 13 weeks apart. Today's $3.49 at 50 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Take the discount away and it is a 63. With it, 67.
Value puts it in the top 5 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 87 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Malware ($2.09, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats xiuzhen idle ($5.99, scores 48).
14 of the 499 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2024 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 665 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 64 percent of the 244 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 2.8 hours. Doing everything runs 6, 2.1 times as long.
The drop-off
84% start to 27% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
6 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 01:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
its okay i suppose, the other mode of the game feels a bit repetitive, however i get thats somewhat the point 180$ for a drink is insane though it shouldnt grow that much
I'd give it a 3/5. I appreciate the horrid henry style artwork, thats really cool. Being english I recognised the influence there but could also see american law, like a hybrid of the two. The cases are generally common sense though it's let down sometimes with a case that isn't really waterproof. you risk overthinking these things sometimes. Thats what this game could be though, a real genuine simulator. Add a...
JudgeSim is a fine game, you'd probably be better off just watching someone else play it. The game is clearly written by someone whose first or even second language isn't English, which is completely okay, but you can notice it in the text. For a game whose entire premise is relying on text, well, that poses a major issue. The other big issue with this one is that there's too much outside of court issues that affect...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
JudgeSim scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2919660/judgesimReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 2.
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