Eco
Fair · Strategy · 2018 · Early Access
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $29.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 70.2h
- Value
- $0.43/hr
- Reviews
- 81% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, AMD Radeon R9 290 or NVIDIA GTX 970 or similar (Minimum: 4 GB VRAM), 6 GB of storage. Windows only.
Build a civilization of real people, working together to advance society and stop a meteor, all without destroying the ecosystem in the process.
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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $22.49, set in February 2024. It has been discounted 48 times in the 9 years tracked here, typically at 15 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 10 percent on value. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 80 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Raft ($19.99, scores 89) beats it on value, while it beats Life is Feudal: MMO (free, scores 0).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 12 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 32 percent of the 804 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
70.2 hours to finish it, 205 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.9 times the campaign.
The drop-off
26% start to <1% rarestNo 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
314 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 01:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
One of the best games i ever touched. You can do basicly everyhting, build up towns, countrys and federations where you get an economy to run with the people around you on the server. So destroying the Asteriod is not the main goal at least for me. Building up a economic healthy civilization is for me the main goal. Only bad part about it, i came years to late to the game. There barly some servers with a healthy...
This is the game I return to time and time again as nothing else really out there like it. Very few games have pulled me in this much and after 1500+ hour of play time I can honestly say this is one of the all time best games out this in this genre! Credit to the developers who are still working so hard to release regular updates and Eco has gone from strength to strength A++ from me great community also there to...
grind the game. Having fun playing with friends but everything you try to do will be roadblocked with at least 2.5 hours of other tasks you gotta do first. Have the wiki open while playing. Although i am having fun in my current play and will keep progressing our little town, idk that i can really recommend this one, $30 is crazy overpriced
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Cite this score
Eco scores 56/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/382310/ecoReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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