Evil Bank Manager

Evil Bank Manager

Skip · Strategy · 2018

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 44, under the fair line, at $11.99.

Length
6.9h
Value
$1.74/hr
Reviews
76% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
6.9h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$1.74
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$11.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
76%
1,764 reviews, as of Sep 26
Players
75K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2018

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 2 GB, 2.9 GB of storage. Windows only.

What could be better than having a million dollars, a billion? This will not make you all powerful in the world, your goal will not only be to make lots of money, but to print money and become a Federal reserve system
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
Engagement62% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$1.74/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews76% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Length6.9 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach75K+ 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
Refunds7 of 500 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

June 2022 is where it bottomed out, at $5.75. 62 discounts in the 8 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.

Value puts it in the top 24 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 74 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 66 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Old World ($39.99, scores 53) beats it on value, while it beats Millennia ($39.99, scores 14).

Steam's global achievement data puts 62 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 500 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 7 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 44 percent of the 226 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

96% start to 62% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

Players

4 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 10:50 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

If you want he understand how GLOBAL CAPITAL runs the world, this game is to explain it. Play it, see it. Every archive should have it.
< blank >Recommendedafter 5.3hJul 2026Read on Steam
The "Grand Puppet Master" Review "If you've ever wanted to be the person behind the curtain pulling the strings of global history, Evil Bank Manager is your game. It's a refreshing take on grand strategy where your greatest weapon isn't an army, but a ledger. The Highlights: Deep Tech Tree: The progression feels incredibly rewarding. You start with basic money-lending, but as you climb the tech tree, you unlock the...
dave-travelRecommendedafter 33hFeb 2026Read on Steam
Lacks end- AND mid-game. Becomes repetitive and I fail to see how I am really supposed to damage my opponents. Had potential, but seems like to was never made into what the initial intentions were.
DuckNot recommendedafter 9.8hMar 2026Read 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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Evil Bank Manager scores 44/100 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/896160/evil-bank-manager
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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

DeveloperHamsters Gaming
PublisherHamsters Gaming
GenreStrategy
Released2018
Achievements57