Empire of Sin
Skip · RPG · 2020
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $39.99.
- Length
- 15.1h
- Value
- $2.65/hr
- Reviews
- 48% positive
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Next sale
- Autumn Sale, Oct 1 to 8
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 75% ($9.99)
- Last discount ended
- 30 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 (1GB) or AMD Radeon R7 250 (2GB), AMD Radeon Vega 11, 10 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Empire of Sin is a new strategy game brought to you by Romero Games and Paradox Interactive that puts you at the heart of the ruthless criminal underworld of 1920s Prohibition-era Chicago.
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
The lowest price on record is $9.99, set in January 2022. It has been discounted 32 times in the 6 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 8 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 99 percent. Omerta - City of Gangsters ($14.99, scores 16) outscores it, and so does Xenonauts 2 ($39.99, scores 38). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 6 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 33 percent of the 357 reviews written there were positive, against 48 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
15.1 hours to finish it, 82 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 5.4 times the campaign.
The drop-off
89% start to <1% 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
About 50 players at once, as of Sep 24.
Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
I played this on the playstation, and honestly, kind of forgot how quickly it gets boring. At first, I thought it was pretty good. I liked the idea of it, building a team, turn based action, resources, etc. That part truly is good. But, once all that novelty washes off, you're left with just REPETITIVE tasks, usually at a grander scale, and taking over territories truly becomes boring (at least for me). It's...
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absolutely stellar game. i got this less than a week ago and i already have 30 hours on it whenever i'm not working i've been playing this. pretty well optimized too, looks good and runs good for me. probably not 60 fps but i don't mind that that being said, however. PARADOX! SUPPORT EMPIRE OF SIN AGAIN AND MY LIFE IS YOURS!
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Empire of Sin scores 0/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/604540/empire-of-sinReviews 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 Aug 1, price as of Sep 24.
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