Final Upgrade
Skip · Strategy · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 38, under the fair line, at $1.99.
- Length
- 17.8h
- Value
- $0.11/hr
- Reviews
- 76% of 464 positive
Full price
Today
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
Help humanity to spread throughout the cosmos by exploring new worlds, building space factories and setting up trade routes. Research advanced technologies to increase efficiency and unlock new paths of development. Fight off other artificial intelligences in your goal to reach the Final Upgrade!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Dedicated graphics card, GTX 770 2GB, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 58 times in the 6 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 33 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today's $1.99 at 90 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Value puts it in the top 33 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 63 percent. On the same math Dyson Sphere Program ($19.99, scores 94) and InfraSpace ($6.24, scores 57) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about Final Upgrade
This site sampled 406 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 3 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written September 2020 to August 2026.
The drop-off
34% start to <1% 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
What players say
Cannot even get thru the tutorial, it constantly hangs on actions like zoom into the map window on a route, you zoom in, do all that it asks, repeat the steps over and over and cannot progress. Honestly this sat in my library unnoticed after some steam sale years ago, I see that it never got any patches or more work, abandonware.
2 more reviews, 2 not recommended
The game is interesting and has a lot of fun, but when you reach the end of a game, it becomes tedious, The Auto Logic of many ships are BROKEN. For Example I had ammo carriers with a 2 T3 Power Sources and they were stuck, on a loop of "not enough energy to travel" so instead of the logic being, Try to get to place, if not possible search closests station with energy, and go there refill. so it stays and waits. The...
It's a decent enough game. It has everything it claims to have. It has cool ideas. But. I just didn't feel like playing it after the first play session. I had to force myself to open the game again after that. I can't even say why exactly. It feels a little under baked. I do like the building stuff, ships and stations, the blueprints system and even the combat part of it. The game provides a bunch of built-in...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Final Upgrade scores 38/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The developer disclosed AI-generated content on Steam, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/919260/final-upgradeReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.