Cliff Empire
Worth it · Strategy · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $17.99.
- Length
- 44.8h
- Value
- $0.40/hr
- Reviews
- 87% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Hardware Accelerated Graphics, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!
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 $7.49, set in June 2024. 30 discounts in the 8 years on record. They run about 35 percent off, roughly 9 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 3 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games closest to it, Anno 2205™ ($5.99, scores 31) and Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation ($19.99, scores 59) both come in lower.
1 of the 570 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 72 percent of the 325 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
59% start to 2% 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
33 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 13:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Fun game once you get the hang of it, I definitely needed to look at guides because it's not very intuitive or you go broke very quick. It's a unique type of city builder where you have limited space and need to balance people, food, needs, power etc pretty heavily. As you progress there are pretty big milestones you unlock that really change a lot of aspects, making things more efficient or new challenges.
Cool game with interesting concept. Sort of post apocalyptic world where you have tiny habitable area where you can build (cliff). You need to balance your population and production of various recourses. And there is a lot of recourses required for big city. And you actually have not 1 but 3 city's that can trade with each other. Each city have their own pros and cons like soil fertility, ore deposits etc. So...
Great game. Cool and creative setting. Only con is gameplay is a bit shorter than other city builders
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Cite this score
Cliff Empire scores 74/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/809140/cliff-empireReviews 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 17, price as of Oct 1.
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