Mobile Empire

Mobile Empire

Skip · Strategy · 2018

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 0, under the fair line, at $1.19.

Length
2.1h
Value
$0.57/hr
Reviews
54% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
2.1h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$0.57
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$1.19
as of Oct 1
Reviews
54%
1,513 reviews, as of Sep 26
Players
350K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2018

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Hardware Accelerated Graphics with dedicated memory, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

This may be the world's first stand-alone simulation game that can “develop a mobile phone"! There are more than 60 models for you to develop! Develop your own mobile phone now!Support sharing with IOS version of the game archive!
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Raising the score
Value$0.57/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Holding it back
Reviews54% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 55% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
Length2.1 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach350K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 545 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

The lowest price on record is $1.19, set in December 2022. Its cuts run 68 percent off as a rule. There have been 40 in the 9 years tracked, about 10 weeks apart.

It is cheaper than 73 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 97 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Business Tour - Board Game with Online Multiplayer(大富翁) (free, scores 5) and AdVenture Communist (free, scores 13) both outscore it.

This site sampled 545 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to May 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 25 percent of the 141 reviews written there were positive, against 54 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

28% start to 3% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

3 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 11:02 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

Mobile Empire is the one of a kind tycoon for phones, business, stores, and vr. I recommend it for the challenge of constantly having to release something new to stay "in the game" with top competitors.
cook70392Recommendedafter 21hAug 2018Read on Steam
I try to use my broken English to recommend the game to English-speaking players, 'cause i love the game so much. The game try to repeat the history of mobile phone from 2002 to future, but it can be done by a talent as yours. The history can be rewritten by the hands of urs. The game considers so many factors in develope a new tech of mobile that may make a fresh man confused. However, when it getting on the road...
在下白给Recommendedafter 9.3h27 found this helpfulearly accessRead on Steam
The only reason anyone should buy this game is if the developer comes round and holds a gun to your head, if this happens absolutly buy it! However if you are not under duress... there is no reason to buy this game... on paper it has potential to be a great game... however the developer had the day off on the day he created this instead leaving his 5 yr old to develop this... He didnt even try, most of the text in...
RobSTAR!Not recommendedafter 1.4h6 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Mobile Empire scores 0/100 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/741260/mobile-empire
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Reviews 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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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperShanghai huan zhen Info Tech Ltd
PublisherXD
GenreStrategy
Released2018
Achievements30