Circle Empires
Worth it · Strategy · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $8.99.
- Length
- 6.2h
- Value
- $1.45/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 3 GB of memory, Intel/AMD Integrated Graphics, 1GB VRAM, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Circle Empires is a fresh take on the RTS genre, featuring a fast-paced approach to conquering the world.
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
June 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $1.79. Its cuts run 70 percent off as a rule. There have been 91 in the 8 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 3 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 94 percent of its genre. The nearest things to it, Rise of Legions (free, scores 58) and CastleStorm ($9.99, scores 69), are both worse buys on this math.
10 of the 527 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 725 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 72 percent of the 501 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
6.2 hours to finish it, 18 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.9 times the campaign.
The drop-off
86% start to 6% 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
27 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 07:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
A fun little game. More on the casual side, but overall something to relax and enjoy.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Circle Empires scores 73/100 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/834740/circle-empiresReviews 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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