9th Company: Roots Of Terror
Skip · Strategy · 2009
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 8, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Length
- 4h
- Value
- $2.50/hr
- Reviews
- 60% of 266 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
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About the game
9th Company Roots of Terror is an action-oriented real-time strategy game based on actual events that took place during the Soviet military campaign in Afghanistan.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory. Windows only.
The value story
105 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 80 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 71 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 92 percent. On the same math Radio Commander: Vietnam '64 ($19.99, scores 21) and Wargame: European Escalation ($9.99, scores 53) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
What players say
Developed by Lesta Studio and Новый Диск and published by Strategy First, 9th Company: Roots of Terror is a real-time strategy game that draws heavily from the Soviet-Afghan War, placing players in the role of Soviet paratroopers during one of the conflict's most recognizable military operations. Instead of creating a fictional war story, the game attempts to capture the harsh realities of combat by following...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Pros: ✅ I can only recommend this game if you buy it on sale (I paid 2 euros). Otherwise skip it. ✅ Cool ragdoll physics. I loved destroying buildings and watching enemies fly 20 meters into the air from artillery strikes. ✅ Unique missions. ✅ The enemy can be extremely dangerous at times. Half of your squad can be wiped out in a matter of seconds by a surprise attack. The game definitely doesn't hold your hand. ✅...
Its full of bugs but I'm surprised this game got localization patches in 2024. It's basically a retail total conversion mod for Men of War. Its innately kind of novel for being about the Soviet-Afghan War which almost never gets representation in media outside of Russia. This game also has a memorial tab dedicated to real soviet soldiers so I guess that sums up the politics of this game. Its also an adaptation of a...
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Cite this score
9th Company: Roots Of Terror scores 8/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/12480/9th-company-roots-of-terrorReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.