Common'hood
Skip · Strategy · 2022
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 0, under the fair line, at $24.99.
- Length
- 22.8h
- Value
- $1.10/hr
- Reviews
- 51% of 342 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 5 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 154 days ago.
- 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
Common’hood is a community building and economy management game with highly customizable base building tools. Scavenge for materials, grow your own food, research new technology, craft new tools, build a home, make friends. Form your community and take it from surviving to thriving!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 220 / ATI Radeon HD 3870 or better, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 36 discounts in the 4 years tracked, the median cut is 55 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 22 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 98 percent. Founders' Fortune ($5.49, scores 49) outscores it, and so does Oxygen: First Breath (free, scores 71). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Common'hood
Steam's global achievement data puts under 1 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 22.8-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 5 of the 321 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2022 to August 2026.
The drop-off
79% start to <1% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
What players say
I really liked the concept behind this game. A short gameplay video I came across on YouTube convinced me to give this cheap little game a try and see if I could build something from nothing, just as the premise of the game suggests. The graphics are, to put it mildly, not particularly attractive, but I decided that the concept and gameplay mechanics would make up for the lack of visual appeal. The beginning was...
2 more reviews, 2 not recommended
A really exciting concept of a game that has sadly been abandoned. It is very buggy with no updates for about three years and no more in sight.
I bought this game as I saw great potential in it. When I played it years ago, there are lots of bugs in it. I am accustom to playing early access games with lots of bugs so I was okay with it knowing the devs will fix it in years to come. Now I am revisiting and saw in the game page that the last update was 2023. Somehow, the dev seemed to have abandoned the game. My honest take, it's not worth buying this game at...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Common'hood scores 0/100 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/962090/common-hoodReviews 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 Oct 2, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.