The Universim
Fair · Strategy · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 50% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$29.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$14.9950% offFair
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.73/hr
- Reviews▼
- 79% of 10,678
- Genre rank
- Top 10% Strategy
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews
Watch this gameOne alert at $14.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 11h
- To 100%
- 56.1h 5.1x the story
- Finish
- 1% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 60
Price and sales
- Sales
- 57 on record
- Typical cut
- 20% off
- Steam low
- $14.99 December 2025
- Sale every
- 39d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 105 now
- Cheaper than
- 3% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 77% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
96% start to 1% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 57 discounts in the 8 years tracked, the median cut is 20 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 10 percent. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 77 percent. Among the games that feel like it, RimWorld ($34.99, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats Stonehearth ($19.99, scores 45).
More about The Universim
Steam's global achievement data puts about 1 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On an 11-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 12 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2024 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 47 percent of the 607 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
11 hours to finish it, 56 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 5.1 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $14.99 (50% off). Predictions like this were right 87% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
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
First game; First baby born goes missing, spent ten min looking for him. said F this is stupid. While i cant get my 10 min back i can sure get my $35 back.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I bought this game in the early stages back in 2018. I really loved it back then and was super excited to see how it would develop. I recently picked it back up since I haven't played in forever and most of it makes sense until you get to the Space Age, everything is buggy messed up and clearly never finished. Last update was in 2024 and the devs have been silent since then. Sad to see they just abandoned it.
I really like how this game progresses through the different ages technologically. One thing is it is a bit nuts having skyscrapers and only stone age level food available, but a really fun game. I do love my nuggets.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Guide a civilization from the Stone Age to the Space Age in a city-building god game. Manage resources, research technology, survive natural disasters and alien threats, use godly powers to protect or punish your creations, and colonize distant planets.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, 20 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Universim scores 58/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/352720/the-universimReviews 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 19, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.