ICBM
Worth it · Multiplayer · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99.
- Reviews
- 91% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Direct X Or OpenGL Compatible Video card, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
ICBM is a real-time strategy game of nuclear destruction. Research new technologies, build up your nuclear stockpile and use a combination of ships, planes and missiles to strike at the heart of your opponents’ cities while keeping your population safe from harm.
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
It has never been cheaper than $7.99. That was July 2025. Its cuts run 30 percent off as a rule. There have been 41 in the 6 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 4 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Wargame: Airland Battle ($19.99, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats WARNO ($39.99, scores 52).
Of the 436 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 9 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 67 percent of the 146 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
29% 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
3 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 02:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
ICBM scores 72/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1178220/icbmReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.
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