Lux Delux

Lux Delux

Fair · Strategy · 2015

Steam Deck Unsupported

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
2.6h 230h to 100%
Value
$3.84/hr
Reviews
82% of 385 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 4 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

Holding it back
Value$3.84/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews82% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 80% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 83 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Lux Delux is a fast-paced turn-based-strategy game of risk and world domination, with so much more! Highly moddable, Lux has over 900 maps, diverse random map generators, a biohazard mode, an AI SDK, and an online multi-player league.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 348 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

The value story

Across all 92 discounts in the 11 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 4 days ago.

Value puts it in the top 16 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 70 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 79 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Age of Conquest IV (free, scores 56) beats it on value, while it beats Small World ($9.99, scores 17).

More about Lux Delux

Finishing takes 2.6 hours; clearing it takes 230, which is 88 times the campaign.

The drop-off

46% start to <1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

Players

Players online
14 when we last checked, on Oct 18, 05:55 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

What is Lux Delux? Lux is a nearly 25 year old game that wanted to be Risk online as until that time there were no good versions of the game to play online and pretty much every PC version of the made so far was junk. Yes, Risk is a stuffy old board game, how hard could it be to make a PC / Online version of that game? Well prior to Lux Hasbro a company that over the years has sold nearly 30 million physical copies...
DemolayeRecommendedafter 106hMar 2025Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Lux Delux scores 50/100 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/341950/lux-delux
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Reviews 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.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperSillysoft Games
PublisherSillysoft Games
GenreStrategy
Released2015
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements27