Clock Simulator

Clock Simulator

Skip · Strategy · 2016

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

WAIT.

It has sold at a fair price before.

Today

$3.99Skip

On its price record

$1.79Fair

Length
0.4h 1.6h to 100%
Value
$9.98/hr
Reviews
87% of 565 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at $1.79 or less.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 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

Holding it back
Value$9.98/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews87% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 86% after the small-sample adjustment
AI contentDisclosed
The developer disclosed AI-generated content on Steam, so the score takes a heavy dock
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds2 of 183 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked

About the game

Clock Simulator is a mindful game of rhythm and focus in which YOU are the clock. Click once a second, every second. Don't be late. Don't hurry. There's nothing else to be concerned with. Clear your mind and discover new depths of relaxation while becoming time itself!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 5000, 102 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

The value story

It has been discounted 40 times in the 10 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 80 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 29 percent on value. It is cheaper than 72 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Session: Skate Sim ($39.99, scores 42) beats it on value, while it beats Production Line : Car factory simulation ($24.99, scores 38).

More about Clock Simulator

Inside the two-hour refund window, 88 percent of the 376 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 81 percent of everything written about it.

Finishing takes 0.4 hours; clearing it takes 2, which is 4.0 times the campaign.

The drop-off

60% start to 13% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

Players online
1 when we last checked, on Oct 3, 08:53 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

No game that uses AI artwork should be recommended to anyone, by anyone. Devs missed a trick here, what a weird way to ruin an otherwise fine little game years after its release.
LuxurychoccieNot recommendedafter 1.4hJul 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Clock Simulator scores 40/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The developer disclosed AI-generated content on Steam, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/501120/clock-simulator
Embed the live badge

Reviews 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.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperKool2Play
PublisherKool2Play
GenreStrategy
Released2016
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements8