Overcrowd: A Commute 'Em Up
Fair · Strategy · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 14.5h 71h to 100%
- Value
- $1.38/hr
- Reviews
- 81% of 1,768 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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About the game
Design and build the most efficient metro stations known to man! Excavate. Expand. Set staff priorities. And manage the commuter flow. Overcrowd is a 2.5D management/tycoon/simulator set below the bustling city of Lubdon Town.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
66 discounts in the 7 years on record, a median of 67 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 9 percent on value. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 81 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Production Line : Car factory simulation ($24.99, scores 38) and Rise of Industry ($29.99, scores 31).
More about Overcrowd: A Commute 'Em Up
This site sampled 574 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 44 percent of the 231 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 14.5 hours. Doing everything runs 71, 4.9 times as long.
The drop-off
51% 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
What players say
lil rough around the corners. i can't put it down though. the camera is wonky, the loop is plain, the puzzle is just the limitation of not being able to build over rails. More a puzzle game than a simulator or resource manager. Once you figure out the strat it's just waiting for money. The costumer and worker ai leave me wanting a bit more complexity, but, it's fun seeing norovirus spread and fill the station with...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
This is a game I didn't think I'd play more than an hour or two when I bought it. At the time of writing this, I have a little over 10 hours of playtime. Its a fun tycoon type game. Its fairly basic after you learn the ropes, and very addictive. I would definitely buy this game, especially if its on sale!
I really wanted to like this game, but there are a few fundamental problems that I ran into in just 3 hours of gameplay that broke it for me: 1. Why do I have to buy generators to power my station? Additionally, I also have to buy fuel storage and make sure my staff refuels the generators... with a jerrycan... that I have to buy and install in the tool room? What crazy parallel universe are we operating in?? 2...
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Cite this score
Overcrowd: A Commute 'Em Up scores 60/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/726110/overcrowd-a-commute-em-upReviews 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 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.