American Conquest
Skip · Strategy · 2011
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 23, under the fair line, at $4.99.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.17/hr
- Reviews▼
- 68% of 701
- Critics
- 76 players 8 lower
- Genre rank
- Top 66% Strategy
Holding it back: Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 29.8h
Price and sales
- Sales
- 79 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $0.99 November 2015
- Sale every
- 42d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 16 now
- Cheaper than
- 59% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 23% of its genre
Price and player charts
Players
- Players online
- 16 when we last checked, on Oct 17, 11:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
The value story
The value story
79 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
It is less well reviewed than 77 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Cossacks: Back to War ($4.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats Empires Apart (free, scores 22).
More about American Conquest
The press liked it more than its buyers did, 76 against 68 percent.
Of the 342 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 42 percent of the 196 reviews written there were positive, against 68 percent overall, and those are 33 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
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
Super underrated RTS from the devs of S.T.A.L.K.E.R and Cossacks. Love the setting and the scale. If you're a fan of old school RTS games this one is a gem
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
American Conquest, developed by GSC Game World and published by GSC World Publishing, is a large-scale historical real-time strategy game that transports players across more than three centuries of conflict in the Americas. Originally released in the early 2000s and later made available on digital platforms, the game stands as a classic example of early-2000s RTS design-ambitious in scope, mechanically demanding...
The game worked great for about a day or two. Then it says it can't find the resolution and quits. Now it doesn't run anymore. I'm not a tech person, so to start talking about tech stuff will be lost on me. I paid for the game, I don't want to have to recode it. I want to turn it on and play it!
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
In American Conquest, Players set sail from Europe to discover new world and conquer its innumerable riches.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, Video Card with 64MB dedicated memory and DirectX 9 Compatible, 3.5 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
American Conquest scores 23/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/115210/american-conquestReviews 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 2, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.