WARNO
Fair · Multiplayer · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $39.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 4h
- Value
- $10.00/hr
- Reviews
- 80% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 50 GB of storage. Windows only.
Realistic, immersive, breathtaking. WARNO is the ultimate World War III battle simulator from the masters of strategy, Eugen Systems. A Cold War turns decisively hot as you command hundreds of units on a beautiful and brutal battlefield. Outsmart, outfight, and lead your forces to total victory.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
November 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $15.99. 39 discounts in the 5 years on record. They run about 33 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.
On value it sits in the top 13 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 83 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Wargame: European Escalation ($9.99, scores 53) beats it on value, while it beats Steel Division 2 ($39.99, scores 41).
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 22 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2025 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 490 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 165 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 64 percent of the 1,427 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
44% 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
873 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
My first time in the Genre, never played wargames or Broken Arrow, but I really enjoy this. The Total War style maps, feature larger geographical regions but with modern equipment marries up in a shockingly good way. I'm still working on single Player, can't wait to start defeating Real Commies online!
Amazing game for those interested in intense strategy-heavy 1v1 battles. There are lots of different playstyles and divisions to try out, each with tonnes of stuff to learn. I mostly like playing light/airborne infantry and fighting defensive, attritional battles but mobile warfare strategies focused on achieving and exploiting breakthroughs, or strategies involving late-game massive armored assaults are among the...
Warno is a good game. I find it fun, relatively balanced and overall it captures my attention well. I do not recommend Warno to anyone. More content than comes with the base game is hidden behind absurdly high priced DLC that comprises most of the better divisions and interesting units in the game. Eugen Systems also struggles deeply with transparency, and isn't interested in making the game "good" for the...
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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WARNO scores 52/100 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/1611600/warnoThe 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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