Predynastic Egypt
Worth it · Strategy · 2016
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99, a BANGER if it drops to $6.23.
- Length
- 3.6h
- Value
- $2.78/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, DirectX 11 compatible video card with 512 MB video memory, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Do you know how did Ancient Egypt looked like before the Great Pyramids? Lead the future Egyptian citizens all the way through the historical hardships to the Unification of Lower and Upper Egypt, and you will find out!
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 $2.49. That was May 2018. Its cuts run 60 percent off as a rule. There have been 46 in the 10 years tracked, about 4 weeks apart. It becomes a BANGER at $6.23, a level the record has reached 38 times.
On value it sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 69 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Kingdom: Classic (free, scores 81) beats it on value, while it beats Egypt: Old Kingdom ($14.99, scores 60).
Steam's global achievement data puts 33 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 354 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 81 percent of the 137 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 3.6 hours. Doing everything runs 20, 5.4 times as long.
The drop-off
90% start to 33% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
8 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 18:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I think this might be my first review. This is one of those games that I keep coming back to. In all honesty, I pirated this game some years ago and that's where i've put the vast majority of my hours. I wanted to support the dev and also clean up my PC so buying it on Steam was a no-brainer. This game is a very chill city-management strategy that is secretly a time-management game. To be completely honest, when you...
Predynastic Egypt is a historical strategy game developed and published by Clarus Victoria that explores a fascinating period rarely covered in video games. Instead of placing players in the era of massive pyramids and powerful pharaohs, the game travels thousands of years further into the past, focusing on the gradual rise of the communities that would eventually form one of the world's most influential...
Wonderful lil turn-based, single-player strategy game, feels like a fast-paced Civ game that at first seems pretty easy, but demands high efficiency to actually get the victory at the end.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Predynastic Egypt scores 77/100 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/461620/predynastic-egyptReviews 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 Sep 28.
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