Children of a Dead Earth
Worth it · Strategy · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99.
- Length
- 50h
- Value
- $0.40/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $4.99 (75% off). Calls like this were right 86% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 75% ($4.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 80% ($3.99)
- Last discount ended
- 94 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 3000, 205 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The most scientifically accurate space warfare simulator ever made. Now with Steam Workshop!
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 $1.99. That was February 2021. It has been discounted 33 times in the 10 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 15 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 13 weeks ago.
On value it sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Kerbal Space Program ($9.99, scores 95) beats it on value, while it beats Tin Can ($19.99, scores 51).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 5 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 50-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 4 of the 362 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.
The drop-off
78% start to 5% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 50-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
What players say
20 bucks is crazy for this broken ass janky ass video game but there's nothing like it. if you're one of the losers this game was made for you already know it and you'll probably like it. no promises though dont blame me or whatever. 760 hours wellish spent eternal glory to amorphous carbon turbopumps and graphite aerogel bulk armor
By far one of, if not the best game I have ever played, it really scratches the itch of a super realistic space warfare game and AFAIK, the only one like it. The building system can get super complex but you can create some really nice looking ships other modules and have a lot of fun building and learning new systems. It is really fun navigating with the newtonian mechanics as well and I think that this game does...
The most realistic space combat game. I love the material engineering for building warships, components, nuclear devices. The designer is the best part of the game, but must be unlocked through the campaign.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Children of a Dead Earth scores 78/100 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/476530/children-of-a-dead-earthReviews 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 2.
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