Crest - an indirect god sim
Skip · Strategy · 2018
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 15, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Length
- 3.7h
- Value
- $2.70/hr
- Reviews
- 65% of 376 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 942 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
Your word is gospel in this god sim set in Sub-Saharan Africa. Influence and try to control your followers using commandments but beware, free will leaves these open to interpretation. Will you create a flourishing civilization or lead them to death and destruction?
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 1 GB VRAM and shader model 4.0 compatible, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
35 discounts in the 11 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 135 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 70 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 84 percent. On the same math The Sapling ($17.99, scores 49) and Odd Realm ($19.99, scores 58) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about Crest - an indirect god sim
Inside the two-hour refund window, 58 percent of the 124 reviews written there were positive, against 65 percent overall, and those are 41 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
39% 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
Late to the review but I guess I'll throw my two cents in here... Don't throw yours in. Everything in the game takes far too long for too little effect. You sort of just stop generating your god powers after a while, they are prohibitively expensive, etc, etc.
1 more review, not recommended
Fun at first, but you can't tell cities what to do, and the growth is limited to 6. So once you have more cities, the whole "tell your people what to do" doesn't really work anymore. When you tell your people to migrate, they might just run from city to city or form a new city on the wrong island, even though your original plan was to get more cities on the new island. The next problem is that it feels like an early...
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Cite this score
Crest - an indirect god sim 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/341710/crest-an-indirect-god-simReviews 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.