EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5
BANGER · Shooter · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $24.59.
- Length
- 30.4h
- Value
- $0.81/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
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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.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
September 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $14.99. Its cuts run 60 percent off as a rule. There have been 57 in the 7 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $24.59 at 59 percent off still sits 64 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 2 percent on value. 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 ($4.99, scores 47) and Serious Sam 3: BFE ($29.99, scores 57).
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 734 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 21 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 68 percent of the 622 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 30.4 hours; clearing it takes 151, which is 5.0 times the campaign.
The drop-off
52% 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
Players
153 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
One of my favorite things about this game is, every class has something new esspecailly when coming from EDF 4.1 Most favorite is still the Air Raider and their Arsenal being just about every branch of a military. Using ♥♥♥ up killstreaks as a primary weapons.
this game has changed my life. do you ever wakes up in the middle of the night and think "hey, i have to take a piss!" this game does not do that to me. it makes me me feel like a super hero.
Why do we love EDF5? Because it's a game about FUN. When you encounter your first giant bugs, you will pull the trigger to your assault rifle and realize "this feels good". And yes, it does! After your first couple missions you will unlock new weapons. You figure, these must be fun too! But no, some of them suck! But that is the glory of the game design, the game will give you hundreds of weapons, all of them...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5 scores 92/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1007040/earth-defense-force-5The BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 15, price as of Sep 24.
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