BalanCity
Skip · Strategy · 2016
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 49, under the fair line, at $7.99.
- Length
- 2h 10.2h to 100%
- Value
- $4.00/hr
- Reviews
- 81% of 910 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 200 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
About the game
BalanCity is a city building / balance physics game. It's a mixture between old school SimCity and Jenga. You must build the tallest towering city over a balancing platform while keeping your citizens happy.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 154 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
104 discounts in the 10 years on record, a median of 90 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 29 weeks ago.
Value puts it in the top 17 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 79 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, My Suika – Kyo’s Fruit Merge ($0.99, scores 72) beats it on value, while it beats The Howler (free, scores 47).
More about BalanCity
This site sampled 358 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 72 percent of the 212 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 31 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 2 hours; clearing it takes 10, which is 5.1 times the campaign.
The drop-off
59% 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
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
BalanCity scores 49/100 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/462680/balancityReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.