Crime Simulator: Playgrounds
Skip · Shooter · 2024
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 24, under the fair line, at $0.69.
- Reviews
- 72% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 65% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 6 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 72% ($0.55)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVidia GeForce GTX 960 or equivalent, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
Crime Simulator: Playgrounds is a short, chaotic, and hilarious entry in the Crime Simulator franchise. Throw hammers, spray pepper gas, and cause mayhem solo or with up to 4 players. Take over hideouts, complete absurd missions, and unleash destruction with the wildest weapons. No rules—just fun!
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
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Shooter game (about 6 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.55. That was September 2025. Its cuts run 72 percent off as a rule. There have been 17 in the 2 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $0.69 at 65 percent off still sits 25 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
It is cheaper than 95 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 65 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Break-In ($19.99, scores 65) beats it on value, while it beats PAYDAY 3 ($29.99, scores 2).
This site sampled 269 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 13 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2025 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 1,071 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 12 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 1 of the 13 refunded reviewers was past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 42 percent of the 118 reviews written there were positive, against 72 percent overall, and those are 44 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
29% 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
7 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 18:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Crime Simulator: Playgrounds scores 24/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is estimated at 6 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The developer disclosed AI-generated content on Steam, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2928280/crime-simulator-playgroundsReviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 2.
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