Blueprint Tycoon
Fair · Strategy · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $2.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 5.6h
- Value
- $0.53/hr
- Reviews
- 82% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Radeon 4850 or equivalent, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Build your settlement, gather goods, ensure maximum efficiency and make a profit!
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
It has never been cheaper than $0.74. That was December 2019. It has been discounted 109 times in the 11 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales.
Value puts it in the top 8 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 78 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 81 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Prison Architect ($29.99, scores 81) beats it on value, while it beats SimAirport ($24.99, scores 51).
Inside the two-hour refund window, 65 percent of the 300 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 30 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 5.6 hours; clearing it takes 14, which is 2.5 times the campaign.
The drop-off
68% start to 4% 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
What players say
I'm afraid I can't really recommend it for money. Gameplay isn't bad and the 3€ aren't much, but the UI sucks and late/endgame has very noticeable performance issues. I recommend playing other games over this one.
I've tried to get into this on a bunch of different occasions now but never have. It's presented like a kind of abstract Factorio-lite, but the UI is rather unhelpful and making the game do what you want it to do usually feels more like clicking random buttons than being in control.
An interesting idea where you create production chains, expand your operations to do research, and to produce more complex goods. The issue I have with it is that it's just a headache to navigate the interface, and to figure out the logistics of transporting goods from point A to point B to achieve efficiency without constantly twiddling with the number of workers assigned to shifting the materials around. At first...
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No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Blueprint Tycoon scores 60/100 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/454060/blueprint-tycoonReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.
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