Carcassonne - Tiles & Tactics

Carcassonne - Tiles & Tactics

Fair · Strategy · 2017

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $2.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
0.6h
Value
$4.98/hr
Reviews
84% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
0.6h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
17.1h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$4.98
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$2.99
as of Sep 27
Reviews
84%
2,798 reviews, as of Sep 26
Players
350K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2017

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, DirectX 10 class GPU with 1024MB VRAM, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.

The official adaptation of the famous board game Carcassonne! A modern classic tile-placement game based on the award winning game in which the players draw and place a tile with a piece of southern French landscape on it. The player can then decide to place one of his followers, called Meeples.
Description from the Steam store page.

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

What we assumed
  • Steam lists in-app purchases but we have no detail on them. Small caution applied.
Raising the score
Replayability~3.6h to replay
Co-op and replay time. The value score counts hours well past the 0.6h main story
Holding it back
Value$4.98/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews84% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 83% after the small-sample adjustment
MonetizationIn-app purchases
Steam lists in-app purchases and nothing more is known, so a small haircut
DRMAsmodee Digital account needed
Needs a second account on top of Steam, a small friction discount
For context
Length0.6 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach350K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
Refunds7 of 561 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

It has never been cheaper than $2.99. That was August 2026. 18 discounts in the 9 years on record. They run about 60 percent off, roughly 12 weeks apart.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 7 percent on value. It is pricier than 68 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 86 percent. Among the games closest to it, THE GAME OF LIFE ($6.49, scores 28) and RISK: Global Domination (free, scores 53) both come in lower.

7 of the 561 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 55 percent of the 233 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.

0.6 hours to finish it, 17 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 29 times the campaign.

Players

76 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 02:48 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

Half of the time you get login issues so you effectively can't play with your friend, what a shame Carcassonne isn't a solo game.
JakoNot recommendedafter 13h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
Quick review after less than 2 hours game time. I want to try later if it's more fun with friends, so I don't have strong opinion yet! This is after few solo games against 1-3 AI opponents. -if you're already familiar with the game, and want to play it in faster pace, then this is probably good for you! I like my board games slower pace that's why this felt a bit jarring , especially against AI. - original tabletop...
MeiNot recommendedafter 1.8hAug 2026Read on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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Carcassonne - Tiles & Tactics scores 61/100 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/598810/carcassonne-tiles-tactics
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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 26, price as of Sep 27.

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Details

DeveloperArtefacts Studio
PublisherTwin Sails Interactive
GenreStrategy
Released2017