The Universim
Fair · Strategy · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $29.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 11h
- Value
- $2.73/hr
- Reviews
- 79% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, 20 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $14.99, set in December 2025. Its cuts run 20 percent off as a rule. There have been 56 in the 8 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 9 percent on value. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 76 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).
Steam's global achievement data says about 1 percent of players ever finish it. On an 11-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. 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.
The drop-off
96% start to 1% finishMost players never reach the end. On an 11-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
87 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
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 got this game when it was in early access thinking the bugs would get fixed and new stuff was gonna get added... that was 2 years ago there have been no updates...
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.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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The Universim scores 58/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/352720/the-universimThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 22, price as of Sep 24.
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