Starship Troopers: Terran Command
Fair · Strategy · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $29.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 13.8h
- Value
- $2.17/hr
- Reviews
- 87% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 1050/ Radeon RX 560, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
Lead the Mobile Infantry in this RTS game set in the Starship Troopers film universe. Balance your army composition with a diverse set of unit types, overcome line-of-sight and line-of-fire challenges through tactical positioning, and use special abilities to smash the Arachnid hordes!
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
July 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $16.49. It has been discounted 42 times in the 5 years tracked here, typically at 40 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales.
Value puts it in the top 9 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Tower Dominion ($17.49, scores 62) beats it on value, while it beats Wargame: European Escalation ($9.99, scores 53).
10 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 67 percent of the 1,026 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
50% 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
297 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 12:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This is a great RTS Game. I was a bit skeptical because of the squad style, but it was awesome! They are building a custom scenario section as well, but the territory battles are pretty awesome until then. Games can take 15 minutes to 2 hours depending on your experience and the combination of enemies.
"If we ain't dying, we aren't trying!" If you're a fan of the first movie, don't hesitate as long as I did. I put off this RTS based on a sci-fi film classic for years, only to get exactly what I wanted within the very first few missions. The iconic movie quotes, the officially licensed setting, and the soundtrack are all very close to what you know from the film. The satirical news broadcasts are also bound to...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Starship Troopers: Terran Command scores 59/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1202130/starship-troopers-terran-commandReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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