Project AURA
Skip · Strategy · 2018
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 15, under the fair line, at $2.99.
- Length
- 7h
- Value
- $0.43/hr
- Reviews
- 64% of 699 positive
Full price
Today
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Project Aura is a micro management game where you lead a Colony of Climate Disaster Survivors. You have been assigned the mission to build an habitat capable of survival in this new unknown world.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, AMD/NVIDIA card, 1GB, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 83 discounts in the 12 years tracked, the median cut is 77 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today's $2.99 at 80 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 87 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation ($6.99, scores 59) beats it on value, while it beats Automation Empire ($29.99, scores 11).
More about Project AURA
Inside the two-hour refund window, 37 percent of the 129 reviews written there were positive, against 64 percent overall, and those are 20 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
49% 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
What players say
This game is graphically interesting, but the play experience was dull and not sufficiently engaging for me to be able to relax and enjoy it.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Take any dictionary, look up the word disappointment and you will be redirected to this game's Steam shop page. [*]Graphics look fine. [*]It does seem to have a decent complexity, once you wrap your head around it, but… [*]… what keeps you from that, however, is the very badly explained tutorial. The challenge should come from mastering the game or from campaign goals - not from trying to learn the basics from...
Mild recommend, with caveats. TLDR: unbalanced and bad UI, but potentially enjoyable at its core. The game is currently $2.99. If you can grab it for that, it's worth a few hours. Don't pay full price because it's not a finished game and you can certainly tell. For 2.99 you'd be getting a semi-competent resource management game with colony mechanics. Not so much a colony or city builder, in the sense that you never...
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Cite this score
Project AURA scores 15/100 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/305940/project-auraReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.