Siege of Centauri
Skip · Action · 2019
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 15, under the fair line, at $14.99.
- Length
- 6.3h 9.3h to 100%
- Value
- $2.38/hr
- Reviews
- 66% of 451 positive
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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
About the game
Defend against thousands of enemies in this explosive tower defense game. Deploy upgradable towers and unleash powerful orbital abilities as you try to protect Earth's first colony world from destruction.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, 2 GB GDDR5 NVidia GeForce 660 / AMD R7 360 or better, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
65 discounts in the 8 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 84 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Element TD 2 - Tower Defense ($14.99, scores 56) and Sins of a Solar Empire II ($49.99, scores 41) both outscore it.
More about Siege of Centauri
Inside the two-hour refund window, 53 percent of the 118 reviews written there were positive, against 66 percent overall, and those are 34 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
76% start to 5% 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
- 1 when we last checked, on Sep 27, 16:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Its a fun game if your into Tower Defense. I've read that some people have had issues playing it, but I haven't personally had any issues except that there are no scenarios (custom or otherwise) to download from the scenarios section within the game. Outside of that the TD nature is pretty fun using units out of their Ashes of the Singularity game. I would personally love to see more content for this game, but I can...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Siege of Centauri overall is a very fun tower defense game I would recommend at full price to any strategy lover. PROS: - interesting towers - interesting enemies - large amounts of units on screen - challenging, especially the ending - easy to pickup - nicely implemented slow-mo system - good UI | good SFX | good visuals (will run on a potato) - custom map making, but * (see below) CONS: - bad voice acting ...
No matter how big my monitor is, I always have to scroll around the map. I'm on a 4k display, I can't imagine trying to play this on a normal 1080p setup. It's like the devs planned to have scrolling as a key gameplay mechanic. As-is, it's infuriating. Also, as a casual gamer, the difficulty (even on "Training" level) is far too hard. The grids for tower placement all seem to be designed to aggravate anyone with the...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Siege of Centauri scores 15/100 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/524010/siege-of-centauriReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.