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Each input wears a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The color is the direction: green raises the score, red lowers it, grey sits neutral. ▼ marks a dock, ? a missing input. The exact weights stay secret. These are the inputs and the direction each pushes.
Most players never reach the end. On a 11.7-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
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Skip · Strategy · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableSKIP IT.
Skip it at $24.99. The value isn't there.
about 11.7h$24.99 (~)
Better value than 68% of Strategy games
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Master of Orion scores 39/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steamBANGERS.com/game/298050/master-of-orion<a href="https://steamBANGERS.com/game/298050/master-of-orion"><img src="https://steambangers.com/api/badge/298050" alt="BANG Score" width="340" height="80"></a>[](https://steamBANGERS.com/game/298050/master-of-orion)The BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It rates value, not taste. Whether it is for you is on you. How the score is computed → Data · updated 6h ago.
Low $24.99High $24.99Now $24.99
Priceflat this rangePrice history via IsThereAnyDeal.
Peak 305Low 305Latest 305
Daily peak concurrent players.Player counts via SteamSpy.
The lowest price on record is $3.74, set in February 2022. It has been discounted 38 times in the 10 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales.
On value it sits in the top 32 percent of its genre. The games it most resembles do better on the same math: Unity of Command: Stalingrad Campaign ($9.99, scores 40) and LEGO® Bricktales ($29.99, scores 40) both outscore it.
Steam's global achievement data says about 2 percent of players ever finish it. On an 11.7-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see.