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Each in the currency that store quoted — not converted: the gap between two rows is the publisher's pricing, not an exchange rate.

Every market we collect.

Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.

Hours played at review time, across 881 reviews with recorded playtime.

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Like many others, I thought it would be quite a bit similar to games like oxygen not included, without the gases part but with some other stuff instead. Thankfully it is so much more than that, in part due to the fact that you are not a "god" directing things from afar but one of the characters running around and doing things. On one hand, it limits how far you can reach to give orders (tell your rats to build things and such), on the other it gives you the ability to do things yourself (except using buildings to do their action in place of other rats). Many things look simple at first but as you play you notice that many things have more depth. Even the tech tree, what you see initially is only a portion of the total tech tree because it has two separate branches for the late game that are not shown until you unlock and build the corresponding buildings (shown with a coloured tech to make them stand out). Levelling up your city gives you a choice between several randomly selected bonuses (from a set list, the bonuses themselves are not random), ranging from making a specific building better (and unlocking it if you had not done it yet) to giving a bonus to the whole city (better mining or building for example). Several things can spiral out of control if you don't deal with them so you need to make sure that all of your rats have access to the services. Even a single death can cause a spiral if you don't handle the corpse relatively quickly. I have yet to win a game (mostly because I keep restarting when I don't do things well enough, a personal problem of mine) but I am having a lot of fun with it.