Tempest Rising
Fair · Action · 2025
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $39.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 16.5h
- Value
- $2.42/hr
- Reviews
- 87% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 78% over the last 30 days against 87% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 1060 3GB/6GB / AMD RX 580 8GB or better, 45 GB of storage. Windows only.
Command distinct factions in a desperate struggle for power and resources in Tempest Rising - a classic RTS set on Earth after a nuclear war.
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $25.99. That was September 2025. 12 discounts in the 2 years on record. They run about 25 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 5 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 7 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Cossacks 3 ($19.99, scores 63) beats it on value, while it beats Stormgate (free, scores 0).
Players rate it 87 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 78 percent. Something recent has soured the room. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 24 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 73 percent of the 1,162 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
64% 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
528 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Fun game but the AI is brutal. I feel like I get everything going fast and when I feel like I'm good (on normal) the AI shows up with 3x somehow...da fuq.
Tempest Rising has nice graphics, engaging campaign with good narration. It has 3 factions with interesting skills offering variety of strategies. They obviously learn from past RTSs mistakes, retain and improved what is working. You would ask why no one is talking about it and why it's not the new greatest hit in RTS genre. Well, multiple of things is wrong with the game that holds it back from being good...
This is the classic Command & Conquer I have been waiting for. From the play style to the design and the music...it is all there! Tempest Rising is basically a brilliant sequel to Command & Conquer. If you loved those games, you'll want this!
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Tempest Rising scores 57/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1486920/tempest-risingThe 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 Aug 2, price as of Sep 23.
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