Skip · Strategy · 2026
SKIP IT.
Skip it at free. The value isn't there.
free to play60% positive
Recent reviews trending up (72% last 30 days vs 58% all-time)
Better value than 7% of Strategy games
Each input wears a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The color is the direction: green raises the score, red lowers it, grey sits neutral. ▼ marks a dock, ? a missing input, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret. These are the inputs and the direction each pushes.
Build a tech company from a one-person garage into a global empire. Train six skills, complete their upgrade trees, chase milestone bonuses, and unlock new departments in this clean, addictive incremental idle game — progress keeps rolling even while you're away.
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Idle Startup scores 6/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steamBANGERS.com/game/4779560/idle-startup<a href="https://steamBANGERS.com/game/4779560/idle-startup"><img src="https://steambangers.com/api/badge/4779560" alt="BANG Score" width="340" height="80"></a>[](https://steamBANGERS.com/game/4779560/idle-startup)The BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It rates value, not taste. Whether it is for you is on you. How the score is computed → Data · updated 3h ago.
Players rate it 60 percent positive over its lifetime, and the last 30 days run 72 percent. It is aging into a better game than its average suggests.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).