Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Anniversary Edition (Classic)
Fair · Strategy · 2009
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $49.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 15.1h
- Value
- $3.31/hr
- Reviews
- 88% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 76% over the last 30 days against 88% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 6.5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
All of Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II in one package. Play the award-winning real-time strategy game in all its glory, including three full campaigns, six multiplayer factions, and a full co-op Last Stand mode with eight unique heroes.
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $3.99. That was February 2017. 68 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 2 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 12 percent on value. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Anniversary Edition (Classic) ($14.99, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III ($39.99, scores 2).
Players rate it 88 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 76 percent. Something recent has soured the room. 10 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2022 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 53 percent of the 769 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
15.1 hours to finish it, 49 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.3 times the campaign.
The drop-off
41% 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
152 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
Not sure why there are a lot of reviews saying this doesn't work etc. Works just fine so far on my laptop. People mention getting kicked to the Main Menu but I have no issues, I've even closed my laptop to go into sleep mode and come back to finish missions. There is a message saying I am offline and cloud sync isn't enabled until I close the game and reload, which is fine as long as I complete the mission then save...
Love this game and decided to look at the store page for it. I've got to say.... $50 for a game that was released in 2009? For a digital copy? How do you justify that? It's truly ridiculous.
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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Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Anniversary Edition (Classic) scores 54/100 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/15620/warhammer-40-000-dawn-of-war-ii-anniversary-edition-classicThe 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 11, price as of Sep 24.
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