Evil Genius
BANGER · Strategy · 2009
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
WAIT.
A BANGER today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 90% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$9.99BANGER
Typical seasonal cut
$0.9990% offBANGER
- Cost per hourS
- $0.37/hr
- ReviewsS
- 93% of 3,619
- Critics
- 75 players 18 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Strategy
Watch this gameOne alert at $0.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 27.2h
- To 100%
- 44h 1.6x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 66 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $0.99 August 2023
- Sale every
- 60d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 14 now
- Cheaper than
- 29% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 98% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
66 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 71 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Dungeons 3 ($5.99, scores 95) beats it on value, while it beats War for the Overworld ($29.99, scores 59).
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $25.60. It costs $9.99.
More about Evil Genius
The press gave it 75; the people who bought it give it 93 percent. An 18-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Of the 381 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 88 percent of the 294 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
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
A Classic That Still Holds Up Even after all these years and what feels like millions of games released since Evil Genius first launched, this game still delivers. Even in 2026, I genuinely think the original Evil Genius deserves a place on every gamer's list. It's one of those games that has a unique charm that modern games just don't quite replicate. If you've never played it, you're seriously missing out. It's...
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A great old school game, requiring only a mouse and a little ingenuity to build an efficient base, and take over the world. Mwahaahaa!
I have enjoyed this since I was very young. I recall some bugs, and things being a bit awkward for a while after moving to the second island, but the good outweighs the bad.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Everybody wants to rule the world! Achieve global power with EVIL GENIUS, the one and only complete world domination simulator. All the everyday tasks of the deliciously wicked mastermind are available to experience and master from building your ultra-secret base to developing spectacular super-weapons to carry out your nefarious master...
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 123 MB of memory, GeForce2 16Mb or equivalent, 1.4 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Evil Genius scores 89/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3720/evil-geniusReviews 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 Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.