World of Tanks
Skip · Multiplayer · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The reviews do not carry it. What it costs you is time.
- Length
- 434.1h
- Price
- Free to play
- Reviews
- 80% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 60% over the last 30 days against 80% all-time.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 / AMD Radeon R9 270, 1280x768 screen resolution, 120 GB of storage. Windows only.
World of Tanks is a tactical action game with very different gameplay depending on the vehicle type and role. Aside from regular PvP, there are competitive and clan-based modes, special PvE and PvPvE events, and much more. Whether you play to dominate or just enjoy the ride, you'll fit right in.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
Value puts it in the top 15 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 83 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Rising Storm 2: Vietnam ($2.49, scores 63) beats it on value, while it beats World of Tanks Blitz (free, scores 45).
Players rate it 80 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 60 percent. Something recent has soured the room.
HowLongToBeat players log 434.1 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 2982, 6.9 times as much.
Still 3.9K concurrent players, 5 years in.
It is still busy. 3.9K players were in it at once at the last check, across 81 days of tracking. Free to start. It takes its money later, through currency and cosmetic.
The drop-off
51% start to 13% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
3,869 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
Cite this score
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World of Tanks scores 49/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1407200/world-of-tanksThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 15.
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