EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5
BANGER · Shooter · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
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A BANGER today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$24.59BANGER
Typical seasonal cut
$14.9975% offBANGER
- Cost per hourS
- $0.81/hr
- ReviewsS
- 94% of 11,596
- Critics
- 76 players 18 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Shooter
Watch this gameOne alert at $14.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 30.2h
- To 100%
- 161.9h 5.4x the story
- Achievements
- 39
Price and sales
- Sales
- 59 on record
- Typical cut
- 60% off
- Steam low
- $14.99 September 2024
- Sale every
- 42d last November 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 396 now
- Cheaper than
- 1% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 94% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
52% start to 1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
September 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $14.99. Across all 59 discounts in the 7 years tracked, the median cut is 60 percent, about 6 weeks apart.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 1 percent. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including STAR WARS™ Battlefront ($19.99, scores 56) and Serious Sam 3: BFE ($29.99, scores 57).
More about EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5
The press gave it 76; the people who bought it give it 94 percent. An 18-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Of the 736 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 20 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 68 percent of the 621 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 30.2 hours; clearing it takes 162, which is 5.4 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
it is some good fun. You play as a soldier and fight gaint aliens across a wide selection of missions.the only real complaint i have is when you fight the enimes they drop armour(permanat health boost) and weapon crates but unless you go and pick them up during the stage you just lose the ability to go collect them once you beat a stage even then there is a mod that solves that, also i feel the game is pretty well...
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About the game
Stand and fight for humanity. This arcade shooter takes place in the year 2022, as the Earth Defense Force fends off an all-out attack by unknown life forms. Become an EDF soldier, battle against endless hordes of immense enemies, and restore peace to the earth.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 2GB/AMD Radeon HD 7970 3GB, 30 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5 scores 92/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1007040/earth-defense-force-5Reviews 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 Nov 8, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.