EARTH DEFENSE FORCE: IRON RAIN
Skip · Multiplayer · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 5, under the fair line, at $59.99.
- Length
- 11.5h
- Value
- $5.22/hr
- Reviews
- 59% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti/ Radeon HD 7790 2GB, 24 GB of storage. Windows only.
Save the world without hope. Year 2040. An action TPS where you will become one of the EDF soldiers and fight against the invaders from outer space which ruined the world. In the world settings which differs from the original "EARTH DEFENSE FORCE" series, more than 50 missions in five difficulties await for your challenge.
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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $9.59, set in March 2024. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 54 in the 7 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 89 percent. OUTRIDERS ($19.99, scores 20) outscores it, and so does Mass Effect™ 3 N7 Digital Deluxe Edition (2012) ($29.99, scores 26). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
This site sampled 678 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 12 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 651 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 220 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 36 percent of the 251 reviews written there were positive, against 59 percent overall, and those are 20 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 11.5 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 27, 2.3 times as much.
The drop-off
91% start to 30% finishA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
8 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 03:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
EDF: Iron Rain will likely not function right out of the box for you. I needed to manually patch the game plus mess around with the game's steam launch parameters to make it further than the intro cutscene. And unfortunately, the game still had plenty of bugs (hehe) besides. Including rapidly flashing strobing equipment menus! Beyond the technical hiccups, it's EDF but mediocre. Character creation is neat, the final...
To preface this review, I had read many of the reviews prior and even watched some gameplay, but out of morbid curiosity I wanted to try the fairly unique prowler class and see if there was even a single redeeming feature that maybe could even justify an impulse purchase during a massive sale and thought to myself how bad could it really be? Turns out this is little more than the early alpha of a no-name chinese...
I can't really put my finger on it but I actually prefer this one to the main line series and I hope yukes gets another crack at it one of these days! Helped to cure my helldivers 2 addiction..good times!
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
EARTH DEFENSE FORCE: IRON RAIN scores 5/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1039890/earth-defense-force-iron-rainReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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