SAELIG
Skip · RPG · 2017 · Early Access
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 48, under the fair line, at $14.99.
- Length
- 3.7h
- Value
- $4.05/hr
- Reviews
- 87% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GTX 970 or better, 14 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
SÆLIG is a game that blends together elements of simulation, strategy, RPG, and business management. Centred around the life of you and your family, you must try to survive and bring wealth and prosperity to your household.
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 $8.99. That was September 2025. 50 discounts in the 9 years on record. They run about 25 percent off, roughly 8 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 20 percent on value. It is pricier than 77 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Going Medieval ($29.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats KINGDOMS ($9.99, scores 24).
This site sampled 366 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 58 percent of the 150 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
63% 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
27 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 23:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
SAELIG feels like it understood exactly what made The Guild 2 good and what The Guild 3 somehow lost along the way. The real magic is the personal struggle of starting with almost nothing and slowly becoming something, where even the little successes feel earned. Building your first business, scraping together money, surviving setbacks and eventually looking back at how far you came is what gives this game its soul...
Fun game, spiritual successor to the Guild 2 and doesn't fail at that. I'll describe two playthroughs of the game I've done so far. I'm a humble worker at a workshop, making bows and such. Sleeping at the local homeless shelter didn't suit me and for a mere 100 Silver a day I don't see much upward mobility; especially with having to buy food. So I start frequenting the fisher docks at night and "Borrowing" some fish...
Somewhere between a survival game, a market sim, and a town builder - absolutely FANTASTIC!
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
SAELIG scores 48/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The developer disclosed AI-generated content on Steam, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/612720/saeligReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.
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