GROUND BRANCH
Skip · Shooter · 2026
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 40, under the fair line, at $29.99.
- Reviews▼
- 83% of 25,133
- Genre rank
- Top 52% Shooter
Holding it back: Length unknown, Reviews
Why
Recent reviews trending down: 60% over the last 30 days against 83% all-time.
Watch this gameOne alert when a sale makes it a BANGER.
Price and sales
- Sales
- 29 on record
- Typical cut
- 25% off
- Steam low
- $14.99 June 2019
- Sale every
- 84d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 182 now
- Recent reviews
- 60% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 7% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 64% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
Across all 29 discounts in the 8 years tracked, the median cut is 25 percent, about 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 64 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Call to Arms ($14.99, scores 56) beats it on value, while it beats Day of Infamy ($14.99, scores 36).
More about GROUND BRANCH
Players rate it 83 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 60 percent. Something recent has soured the room. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 9 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2026 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 62 percent of the 1,957 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
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
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. The score is docked for the missing length.
About the game
From one of the developers behind the original Rainbow Six® and Ghost Recon® games, comes a thinking-man's first-person shooter featuring in-depth character and weapon customization. Take your time. Think ahead. Get the job done.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB / AMD Radeon RX 580 8GB, 40 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: length (HowLongToBeat), critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
GROUND BRANCH scores 40/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. Length is not in our data, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/16900/ground-branchReviews set the ceiling. With no length in our data, value sits at a neutral middle whatever the price, and the BANG Score is docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.