Battle Cry of Freedom
Skip · Multiplayer · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 29, under the fair line, at $10.00.
- Reviews
- 72% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 960, 30 GB of storage. Windows only.
Battle Cry of Freedom brings brutal real-time first and third-person combat set in the 19th Century America, presenting players with the opportunity to re-fight the American Civil War as either the Union or the Confederates.
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
December 2023 is where it bottomed out, at $1.20. It has been discounted 42 times in the 5 years tracked here, typically at 77 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales.
On value it sits in the top 44 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 69 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Holdfast: Nations At War ($19.99, scores 63) beats it on value, while it beats Beyond The Wire ($9.99, scores 10).
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 22 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2022 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 651 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 168 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 45 percent of the 528 reviews written there were positive, against 72 percent overall, and those are 25 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
43% 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
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Battle Cry of Freedom scores 29/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1358710/battle-cry-of-freedomReviews 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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