IDLE_DIRECTIVE
Fair · Strategy · 2026
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Reviews
- 86% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.
Idly gather and manage resources to repair what's left of a decaying world. Scavenge forgotten ruins, meet scattered survivors, and push back against the inevitable collapse. IDLE_DIRECTIVE is a grid-based inventory and resource management idle game.
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
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Strategy game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
July 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $4.49. It has gone on sale once in the 65 days tracked here, most recently in July 2026.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 9 percent on value. It is cheaper than 72 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. It scores the same as Rolling Line, which costs $24.99. This one is $4.99.
This site sampled 362 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2026 to August 2026.
The drop-off
96% 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
102 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 01:54 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
IDLE_DIRECTIVE scores 58/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is estimated at 8 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/4599710/idle-directiveReviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 30, price as of Oct 1.
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