Startup Company
Fair · Strategy · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $12.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 22.2h
- Value
- $0.59/hr
- Reviews
- 81% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 570 or similar, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Startup Company is a business simulation sandbox game where you’re the CEO of a new company. Your job is to build your very own website and compete against the largest tech giants on the planet!
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
April 2019 is where it bottomed out, at $4.99. 73 discounts in the 9 years on record. They run about 40 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 8 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 76 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 81 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Megaquarium ($24.99, scores 85) beats it on value, while it beats City Game Studio: Your Game Dev Adventure Begins ($19.99, scores 56).
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 11 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 41 percent of the 587 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 22.2 hours; clearing it takes 48, which is 2.1 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
94% start to 2% 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
35 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 15:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Sometimes, when I am having an existential crisis about work-life balance and the nature of keeping up a middle class lifestyle in a time of mass economic instability, I come back to my playthrough of this game to remind myself that all it takes is good planning, competent leadership, a vision, and occasional infusions of VC money to make magic happen for the many, not simply the few.
Got it on sale and it's a fair price. Gameplay loop is enjoyble for a couple playthroughs. Once you know what's what, it's just a matter of how quickly you get to the point where you start buying stuff using an army of sales execs. Oh and absolutely use a mod to bulk order. In my latest playthrough I aimed for 200 sales execs. With somewhat optimized early game you get there very quickly. Then you really ramp it up...
A poor execution of a game that could've been great. I tried to get into it, but you're essentially following how the devs wanted the game to be played, with tons of monotony, and no room for freedom.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Startup Company scores 60/100 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/606800/startup-companyReviews 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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