War Hospital
Skip · Strategy · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 8, under the fair line, at $1.49.
- Length
- 12.7h
- Value
- $0.12/hr
- Reviews
- 61% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750, 2 GB or AMD Radeon R7 360, 2 GB, 30 GB of storage. Windows only.
Take charge of a WW1 field hospital on the Western Front, and make all the decisions necessary to help the soldiers recover and to support the war effort. In this narrative management game, you are the last bastion of humanity.
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
It has never been cheaper than $1.49. That was June 2026. Its cuts run 80 percent off as a rule. There have been 24 in the 3 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 93 percent. On the same math Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition ($19.99, scores 22) and Radio Commander: Vietnam '64 ($19.99, scores 21) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
This site sampled 697 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 14 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written January 2024 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 2,725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 591 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 42 percent of the 119 reviews written there were positive, against 61 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
80% 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
33 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 21:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Despite some minor bugs and a few missing pieces of information on the UI, this game is genuinely enjoyable to play through. It manages to capture an atmosphere that strongly resembles the grim survival vibes of Frostpunk. Is not perfect but really fine. Definitely worth checking out.
Buy on sale. Unique perspective on a resource management game but gets buggy in mid/late game. Fun until the cracks become unavoidable and you fall through.
tldr it´s not a bad game but after finishing it I felt kind of annoyed and sad cause what a game this could have been. if you´re into frostpunk check it out. ---- it took me 30 hours finishing it. the end was like the whole game. kind of clanky, and not really interested in telling you what´s going on. but if you´re into Frostpunk it really scratches the itch. people wrote about the UI, missing statistics and...
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Cite this score
War Hospital scores 8/100 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/1553000/war-hospitalReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.
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