Rock God Tycoon

Rock God Tycoon

Skip · Strategy · 2017

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 28, under the fair line, at $10.99.

Length
4h 15h to 100%
Value
$2.75/hr
Reviews
72% of 314 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 3 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 207 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

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

Holding it back
Value$2.75/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews72% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 71% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 61 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Create, manage, and guide your very own band to success!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 256MB graphics with DirectX 11, Shader Level 3.0, 748 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.

The value story

35 discounts in the 10 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 10 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 30 weeks ago.

It is pricier than 72 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 61 percent. Among the games that feel like it, My Dream Setup ($2.39, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats Food Truck Simulator ($6.99, scores 24).

More about Rock God Tycoon

4 hours to finish it, 15 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.8 times the campaign.

The drop-off

57% start to 13% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

Players online
1 when we last checked, on Sep 30, 07:53 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

Is this game worth picking up? Yes, for $11 or on sale its worthwhile. TLDR; Game is a fun simulation of becoming a rock star by forming a band and starting in your character's mom's garage and working your way up to the prime time rock star living. Gameplay isn't too bad, a good pick up and play while needing to kill some time. Gameplay: For what you get its not too bad, its simple but yet oddly compelling in...
DrakmearRecommendedafter 17h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Fun but too difficult at times to advance and you have to start over. Really cool concept overall.
gtruchelRecommendedafter 12hJul 2024Read on Steam
"No we are no longer working on Rock God Tycoon (actively) and we have both since moved on to new projects/jobs." And yet the game is telling me in a popup right at the start that you are still working on it.
TimNot recommendedafter 5.3hJul 2024Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Rock God Tycoon scores 28/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/410840/rock-god-tycoon
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Reviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperFern Nigro
PublisherEmberWulf
GenreStrategy
Released2017
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements20