City of Brass
Skip · Roguelike · 2018
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 44, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 4.5h 26.3h to 100%
- Value
- $4.44/hr
- Reviews
- 78% of 830 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in 5 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
A first-person action adventure, inspired by Arabian Nights, from senior BioShock developers.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 550 or Equivalent card, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 79 times in the 9 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 90 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Delver ($14.99, scores 65) beats it on value, while it beats MOTHERGUNSHIP ($24.99, scores 39).
More about City of Brass
69 from critics against 78 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
This site sampled 372 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to June 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 57 percent of the 257 reviews written there were positive, against 78 percent overall, and those are 34 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 4.5 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 26, 5.8 times as much.
The drop-off
78% start to 11% 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
What players say
I am not fan of roguelike. So I don't like this game. I don't like to restart the same level over and over. A lot of it is luck rather than skill Also, better to avoid fight in this game if you want to go far. I will leave a thumb up for the roguelike fan people though
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
It's an insanely fun pick-and-play kind of game, it's not a huge time commitment which is a plus for me, need more games in my library I can just boot up for an hour and have fun. The whip is insanely satisfying, kinda feels like you're bullying the enemies at a certain point which is the kind of vibe I adore. Sweep the legs, knock the sword out of their hand, whip their head to stun them, push them into spike pits...
The first reason that stops me from recommending this game is that it's not what it claims to be. City of Brass is not really an action-adventure game as much as it is a beautifully constructed troll game, with layers upon layers of distractions, noob traps, and red herrings that will trick you into losing until you learn to recognize them. The first times you play, you might assume you have to carefully explore the...
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Cite this score
City of Brass scores 44/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/301840/city-of-brassReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.