Old World
Fair · RPG · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $39.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 23.1h
- Value
- $1.73/hr
- Reviews
- 83% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 (2 GB) / AMD Radeon HD 7950 (3 GB), 10 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Old World is a revolutionary new historical strategy game where you lead your dynasty over generations of rule against rival kings and queens. Wage massive wars, manage your court, and build a dynasty — or watch your empire crumble to dust. What legacy will you leave behind?
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
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $3.99. That was September 2025. It has been discounted 44 times in the 4 years tracked here, typically at 30 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales.
Value puts it in the top 15 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 82 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Heart of the Machine ($29.99, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats Millennia ($39.99, scores 14).
Steam's global achievement data puts under 1 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 23.1-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 23 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 51 percent of the 380 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 23.1 hours; clearing it takes 86, which is 3.7 times the campaign.
The drop-off
66% start to <1% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 23.1-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
350 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 00:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I simply cannot stop thinking about this game. You can see the love and hard work the developers have poured on this project and how much they care about the community, history, and fun. It's a fantastic mix of the roleplayong from a game like CK3 and the gameplay of something like Civ VI, with a lot of unique features that make it stand well above the others. Bonus points for having insanely good music and OST.
if paradox made a real civ game, it has elements of CK mixed with Civ and a few other paradox style of game design. AI is good. I like this game
I hate this game with a passion. Playing it is a truly miserable experience. I cannot believe anyone who is not some kind of deranged masochist could enjoy playing something that is so utterly awful. I could list all of the things that suck any fragment of joy from the game but like playing the game what is the point. Save yourself the disappointment and misery and buy something else.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Old World scores 53/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/597180/old-worldReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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