Hearthlands
Fair · Strategy · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $15.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 10h 187.8h to 100%
- Value
- $1.60/hr
- Reviews
- 83% of 414 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
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.
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About the game
Hearthlands is a medieval/fantasy city-building real time strategy game in which you take a role of a king in a procedurally generated world. You can not control your subjects directly; instead you focus on city-building, resource management, diplomacy, magic, etc.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, GeForce / Radeon. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 56 times in the 12 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 15 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 85 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 81 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Nebuchadnezzar ($19.99, scores 55) beats it on value, while it beats IXION ($34.99, scores 51).
More about Hearthlands
Steam's global achievement data puts about 2 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 10-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.
The main story runs 10 hours. Doing everything runs 188, 19 times as long.
The drop-off
47% start to 2% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
What players say
Hearthlands, developed and published by Four White Cats, is a city-building and management game that leans heavily on classic design sensibilities while introducing a more relaxed, simulation-driven approach to governing a medieval-fantasy settlement. It doesn't chase the complexity or spectacle of modern strategy titles; instead, it focuses on creating a living system where your role is less about issuing constant...
1 more review
Kept me up till 2AM playing. So if you don't want this to happen don't get it. Totally fun medieval city management game. But there is some kind of BUG with the SAWMILLS. The way around this is to have Woodcutters on a dedicated road NOT connected to your city with a warehouse at the end that will store your wood. From that warehouse make another dedicated road with Sawmills to connected to another warehouse to...
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Cite this score
Hearthlands scores 52/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/336300/hearthlandsReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.