Tempest Rising
Fair · Action · 2025
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $39.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.42/hr
- Reviews▼
- 86% of 12,385
- Critics
- 80 players 6 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 10% Action
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Recent reviews
Why
Recent reviews trending down: 70% over the last 30 days against 86% all-time.
Watch this gameOne alert at $15.71 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 16.5h
- To 100%
- 31.6h 1.9x the story
- Achievements
- 144
Price and sales
- Sales
- 13 on record
- Typical cut
- 25% off
- Steam low
- $19.99 September 2026
- Sale every
- 42d last September 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 354 now
- Recent reviews
- 70% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 1% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 92% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
64% start to <1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
13 discounts in the 2 years on record, a median of 25 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 10 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Cossacks 3 ($19.99, scores 64) beats it on value, while it beats Stormgate (free, scores 0).
More about Tempest Rising
Players rate it 86 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 70 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 86 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 6 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
I wish there was a more neutral option for Steam reviews, but I can't give this game a straight yes. There are a lot off issues that can be resolved, but wall building is absolutely broken if building north/south because of the grid system. ****Spoilers**** the missions against the surprise enemy at the end are just plain broken. Escorting civilians and the enemies just port in out of no where and slaughter them...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
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.
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!
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Command distinct factions in a desperate struggle for power and resources in Tempest Rising - a classic RTS set on Earth after a nuclear war.
Minimum specs
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.
Cite this score
Tempest Rising scores 54/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1486920/tempest-risingReviews 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 Oct 31, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.