Project Highrise
Worth it · Strategy · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99.
- Length
- 9.8h
- Value
- $2.04/hr
- Reviews
- 85% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Integrated video (Intel HD 4000 or later), 1 GB shared memory, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Project Highrise is a skyscraper construction and management sim...
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 $2.79, set in December 2024. 60 discounts in the 10 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 4 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Prison Architect ($29.99, scores 81) beats it on value, while it beats City Game Studio: Your Game Dev Adventure Begins ($19.99, scores 56).
The press gave it 73; the people who bought it give it 85 percent. A 12-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Of the 534 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 61 percent of the 262 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 9.8 hours. Doing everything runs 49, 5.0 times as long.
The drop-off
65% start to 2% 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
26 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 09:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
If you like Sims Tower you'll like this game. The learning curve can be a little high in terms of balancing costs and growth, but it's a great game.
It's been a while I downloaded it because it reminded me of Sim Tower, a game I used to play when I was a kid. I was a bit skeptical after playing the tutorials because it seemed fairly simple. Yet when I started to build my own tower, I was hooked and could not stop. It remains to be seen what depth it has but for now it's very promising and entertaining.
Very challenging but also very fun. Scratches an itch for managent and building games.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Project Highrise scores 69/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/423580/project-highriseReviews 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 23, price as of Oct 1.
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