Kaiju Wars
Skip · Strategy · 2022
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 41, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 19.1h
- Value
- $1.05/hr
- Reviews
- 76% of 275 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
Play out a Kaiju movie as the (hopelessly) outclassed military in this stylish 2D turn-based strategy game. Construct buildings and defend your city with cannon-fodder tanks, jets and more as the devastating kaiju grow in power with every attack.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Graphics card with DX10 (shader model 4.0) capabilities, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
29 discounts in the 4 years on record, a median of 80 percent off across all of them, roughly 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 28 percent on value. It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 62 percent. Among the games that feel like it, BATTLETECH ($39.99, scores 64) beats it on value, while it beats Halfway ($12.99, scores 33).
More about Kaiju Wars
Of the 229 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 4 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2022 to August 2026.
The drop-off
74% 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
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 11, 00:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
King of the Monsters? More like the King of Value! This game is always on sale for just a few bucks and it's overflowing with content. The gameplay is pretty solid but it really requires you to rethink just about everything you know about strategy games...your troops are hopelessly outmatched against their Kaiju foes and are only there to buy time for the real heroes...the egg heads in the lab! I do have a few...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Kaiju Wars offers an inventive twist on the turn-based strategy formula by placing players in charge of defending cities from towering monsters instead of controlling the monsters themselves. Inspired by classic kaiju films, the game casts you as a mayor coordinating emergency responses while scientists race to develop technology capable of stopping the seemingly unstoppable threat. This premise immediately...
Great concept, poor execution. After a few missions in, it really just doesn't have enough variety from mission to mission. Even worse is how slow it all moves - I burned out on this about half way through because of it. Shame, because the art and music were really sweet. Gameplay is all that really matters in the end.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Kaiju Wars scores 41/100 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/1508400/kaiju-warsReviews 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.