MachiaVillain
Skip · Strategy · 2018
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 18, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 39h
- Value
- $0.51/hr
- Reviews
- 66% of 810 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
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
Machiavillain is an evil mansion management and strategy game, inspired by Dungeon Keeper, Prison Architect and all the horror movie clichés! Build your own manor, raise your monsters, set up your traps, and exterminate your victims. But to gain reputation you'll have to slay by the horror movie rules!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, AMD Radeon HD 5750/Nvidia GT 450 or higher, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 64 times in the 8 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 85 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 84 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Another Brick in The Mall ($16.99, scores 64) beats it on value, while it beats Automation Empire ($29.99, scores 11).
More about MachiaVillain
Of the 333 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.
The drop-off
43% 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
- 3 when we last checked, on Sep 29, 16:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Another evil place management sim, though we don't have enough of good ones. Unfortunately this title is good enough, but not as good as it should have been. So gameplaywise it's a management sim - indirect control similar to dungeon keeper or rimworld where you cannot really decide what your creatures will do, just kinda suggest their actions with tasks assigned. Here you manage a monster house - and ofc it has to...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
this game has so much potential, once I started I couldn't stop. sadly there is not enough content. wish the devs were still working on this.
i was siting on this game and pulled it out earlier this week to find it abandon, i had it day one early access it had so much love put in it the idea pulled off vary well as is i only recommend it if on sail and or if your looking for a good beginners to survival rts that's some what kid freadly if you get past the cannibals in the woods part. i will resend my resentment if modding access is added so the community...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
MachiaVillain scores 18/100 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/555510/machiavillainReviews 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.