Shieldwall
Fair · Action · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $17.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 8.3h
- Value
- $2.17/hr
- Reviews
- 86% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 or AMD R9 270, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
Shieldwall is a funny third-person tactical battle simulator with strategy elements. It allows you to feel like a squad leader right on the battlefield.
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 $5.39. That was May 2026. It has been discounted 22 times in the 7 years tracked here, typically at 33 percent off, with about 14 weeks between sales.
Value puts it in the top 8 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 88 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Beast Battle Simulator ($9.99, scores 62) beats it on value, while it beats Bee Island ($9.99, scores 53).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 4 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On an 8.3-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 14 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2022 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,814 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 875 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 79 percent of the 986 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 8.3 hours; clearing it takes 23, which is 2.8 times the campaign.
The drop-off
58% start to 4% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On an 8.3-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
95 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 18:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
if you want to waste 40 mins running back and forth between flags trying to keep ur progress and failing this is the game for you
Not worth the full price. Only get it on a sale. The AI is bland, the gameplay is cheesing your way through the campaign and the multiplayer has no fun other than spamming unit keys. The trope of just buffing the AI enemy at every minor inconvenience in the campaign has run its course too. Resource management doesn't matter for the AI because it just gets free units and resources. Cannot recommend.
The game was very fun to play and easy to understand the controls. Would highly recommed it to other people.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Shieldwall scores 57/100 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/1216320/shieldwallReviews 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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