Signal Simulator
Fair · Strategy · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 18.1h 67h to 100%
- Value
- $0.83/hr
- Reviews
- 79% of 1,029 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Game inspired by SETI. Take the role of a scientist to find an extraterrestrial signal .Control massive Radio Antennas by using interactive control in your Observatory. Detect , download and decode unknown or story telling signals. Manage and Maintain an electrical system to improve your systems and make it more efficient.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 1 GB Dedicated Memory, 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
The value story
67 discounts in the 8 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 13 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 83 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 75 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Job Simulator ($19.99, scores 58) beats it on value, while it beats The Solus Project ($19.99, scores 49).
More about Signal Simulator
Of the 453 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 13 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,597 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 195 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 4 of the 13 refunded reviewers were past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 58 percent of the 166 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 17 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 18.1 hours. Doing everything runs 67, 3.7 times as long.
What players say
its a very nice game to play but the devs don't update it any more i just hope they come out with a second one someday.
1 more review, not recommended
This game had potential, but it gets boring quick, and it's painfully slow to progress. It was fun discovering things for the first hour or so, but once you realize the game is going nowhere, you regret the time you put into it. It's tedious, unpolished, and it's not worth the $15 I paid for it.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Signal Simulator scores 54/100 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/839310/signal-simulatorReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.