American Conquest: Fight Back

American Conquest: Fight Back

Skip · Strategy · 2011

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The verdict

SKIP IT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

It scores 32, under the fair line, at $4.99.

Cost per hourS
$0.18/hr
Reviews▼
72% of 631
Critics
66 players 6 higher
Genre rank
Top 43% Strategy

Holding it back: Reviews

Why
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Time and effort

Main story
27.3h

Price and sales

Sales
79 on record
Typical cut
75% off
Steam low
$1.24 January 2013
Sale every
42d last October 2026
Lowest now $4.69 at Fanaticalall-time low $0.74 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
13 now
Cheaper than
59% of its genre
Better reviewed
41% of its genre
Price and player charts

Players

Players online
13 when we last checked, on Oct 22, 12:54 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

The value story

The value story

Across all 79 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Its score sits in the top 43 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 Hearts of Iron III ($9.99, scores 31).

More about American Conquest: Fight Back

This site sampled 319 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 52 percent of the 153 reviews written there were positive, against 72 percent overall, and those are 28 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

Raising the score
Cost per hour$0.18/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Holding it back
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 319 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

American Conquest: Fight Back is the sequel to American Conquest. The most significant events of that glorious time have found their way into this title.
Description from the Steam store page.
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

BANG Score badge
American Conquest: Fight Back scores 32/100 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/115220/american-conquest-fight-back
Embed the live badge

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 Nov 2, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+6
Critics66
Players72
Metacritic critics · 631 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperGSC Game World
PublisherGSC World Publishing
GenreStrategy
Released2011
Players150Kowners, SteamSpy estimate