Rise of Industry
Skip · Strategy · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 31, under the fair line, at $29.99.
- Length
- 18.9h
- Value
- $1.59/hr
- Reviews
- 73% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GT 550 or AMD Radeon HD 5000 - Integrated GPUs might not work, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in the first title in the ROI series as you create & optimise intricate production lines. As an early 20th-Century industrialist, grow your empire & adapt to an ever-changing business landscape with unexpected events that could lead to boom…or bust.
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 $2.99, set in March 2025. It has been discounted 55 times in the 9 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 46 percent on value. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Production Line : Car factory simulation ($24.99, scores 38) beats it on value, while it beats Automation Empire ($29.99, scores 11).
9 of the 726 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 376 reviews written there were positive, against 73 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
18.9 hours to finish it, 55 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.9 times the campaign.
The drop-off
71% 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
34 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 17:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Good game even if some particulars are desinged in an unfortunate way. Like it is impossible to find out whether given factory produces profit and how much. Or you have an auction to deliver 25 units of milk to some village, the auction costs 250k but you have no idea how much you will get for the delivered milk! So you cannot really decide whether you earn or lose money. This is quite a basic thing, which should be...
As long as you go into this game on the understanding that it is just a game, not real world sim, it's fun.
Dead Game. Devs have given up on it. It's infested with bugs. Don't waste your money folks...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Cite this score
Rise of Industry scores 31/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/671440/rise-of-industryReviews 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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