50 years
Fair · Strategy · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 0.8h 17.7h to 100%
- Value
- $6.24/hr
- Reviews
- 89% of 693 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.57 or less.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $1.24 (75% off). Calls like this were right 86% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 9 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
50 Years is a fast-paced alternative to the bigger, longer turn-based strategy games. You can win or lose a game in a single evening. Either way you'll want to play it again.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 128MB, 154 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
54 discounts in the 10 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 10 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 60 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Choice of Life: Middle Ages ($1.39, scores 69) beats it on value, while it beats Talisman: Digital Classic Edition ($6.99, scores 51).
More about 50 years
Of the 337 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 82 percent of the 189 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 30 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 0.8 hours; clearing it takes 18, which is 22 times the campaign.
The drop-off
36% start to 6% 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
Players
- Players online
- 2 when we last checked, on Oct 9, 09:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
50 Years is easily the best 80 cents (on mega sale) that I have spent on Steam. The concept is simple yet addictive and leaves room for you to try different strategies. You have 50 years (turns) to take your nation to victory. Each year, you build structures and buy units. Sometimes, you get a new passive because your nation earned enough faith. Also sometimes, you get a bonus challenge event for more loot. After...
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Cite this score
50 years scores 58/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/502740/50-yearsReviews 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.