RIOT: Civil Unrest
Skip · Strategy · 2019
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 18, under the fair line, at $16.99.
- Cost per hour▼
- $3.40/hr
- Reviews▼
- 68% of 1,976
- Genre rank
- Top 76% Strategy
Holding it back: Reviews, Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 5h
- To 100%
- 14.8h 3.0x the story
- Achievements
- 10
Price and sales
- Sales
- 71 on record
- Typical cut
- 80% off
- Steam low
- $1.69 December 2021
- Sale every
- 42d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 6 now
- Cheaper than
- 15% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 23% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
22% start to 1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 71 discounts in the 9 years tracked, the median cut is 80 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 85 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 77 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Basement ($19.99, scores 22) beats it on value, while it beats Infectonator: Survivors ($0.99, scores 17).
More about RIOT: Civil Unrest
This site sampled 573 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 12 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,604 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 411 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 56 percent of the 540 reviews written there were positive, against 68 percent overall, and those are 33 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 5 hours. Doing everything runs 15, 3.0 times as long.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 17 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Man this game speaks to something deep in my soul makes me wanna protest something.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
This is a great game for the price and for what it is. It looks shockingly accurate to real footage of riots and public upheavals around the world. Reviews for this game seem a bit unfair, so I figured I'd throw my hat in the ring in hopes to get this game some better press.
Game is a little bit bad for realism. Crowds wont charge through ranks or in the gaps of police officers in real life.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
As civil crisis deepens and inequality tears the very fabric of society the discontentment of the masses manifests itself in violent public disturbances and civil disorder. Play as the police or the angry horde as RIOT – Civil Unrest places you in some of the world’s most fractious disputes.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
RIOT: Civil Unrest scores 18/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/342310/riot-civil-unrestReviews 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 Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.