Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™
Skip · Strategy · 2014
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 9, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.59/hr
- Reviews▼
- 61% of 23,192
- Critics
- 81 players 20 lower
- Genre rank
- Top 90% Strategy
Holding it back: Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 16.9h
- To 100%
- 78.5h 4.6x the story
- Achievements
- 90
Price and sales
- Sales
- 85 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $9.99 November 2016
- Sale every
- 44d last November 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 301 now
- Cheaper than
- 1% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 7% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
79% start to 1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 85 times in the 12 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $9.99 at 75 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Age of Wonders: Planetfall ($29.99, scores 56) beats it on value, while it beats Sid Meier's Starships ($14.99, scores 0).
More about Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™
Critics scored it 81, but players land 20 points lower at 61 percent. The reviews were kinder than the room.
3 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2021 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 29 percent of the 731 reviews written there were positive, against 61 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 16.9 hours; clearing it takes 79, which is 4.6 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
It takes some warming-up, but there is a good game here. Its not as complicated as the main civ series =)
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
The game is great. There is some glitches when you have too many units, but nothing that will compromise your fun!
Waste of everything. Glitches out your *ss. When (IF) you do get it to play, stops working once all techs are discovered.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth is a new science-fiction-themed entry into the award winning Civilization series. As part of an expedition sent to find a home beyond Earth, lead your people into a new frontier, explore and colonize an alien planet and create a new civilization in space.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 8 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™ scores 9/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/65980/sid-meier-s-civilization-beyond-earthReviews 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 Nov 6, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.