Pacific Storm Allies

Pacific Storm Allies

Skip · Strategy · 2008

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 12, under the fair line, at $7.99.

Length
27.8h
Value
$0.29/hr
Reviews
62% of 240 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 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

Raising the score
Value$0.29/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Holding it back
Reviews62% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 63% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 91 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Pacific Storm: Allies expands upon the success of the internationally acclaimed original to deliver an unforgettable mix of real-time strategy and blistering arcade combat, recreating World War II's most heated battles.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, DirectX compatible 128 MB graphics card, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

100 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 85 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

It is less well reviewed than 89 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, War on the Sea ($39.99, scores 27) beats it on value, while it beats Silent Hunter 5®: Battle of the Atlantic ($9.99, scores 0).

Players

Players online
2 when we last checked, on Sep 29, 18:55 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

This is the studio that brought us World of Warships much later down the line. This is a detailed simulator/rts/grand strategy hybrid. It has some technical issues but overall very unique, especially when the game came out. I love battlestations midway and pacific games, but compared to this it is like comparing Call of Duty with Arma. Both i consider great games in their own respected genres. This game has the...
-Revell-Recommendedafter 15hJan 2024Read on Steam
1 more review, not recommended
1.5/5 The game is incredibly noob unfriendly. I was there only for the steam cards anyways. First thing you do is get faced by walls of text and match settings but you basically have no idea what to play and what to do. AFAIR it has a tutorial but I couldn't bare it. Simply a boring junky strategy game with 3d environment and effects.
DanielsNot recommendedafter 1.7hFeb 2025Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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Pacific Storm Allies scores 12/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/11260/pacific-storm-allies
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Reviews 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 Sep 30, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+2
Critics60
Players62
Metacritic critics · 240 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperLesta Studio
PublisherESDigital Games
GenreStrategy
Released2008
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate