Nuclear Dawn
Fair · Multiplayer · 2011
The verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 90% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$9.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$0.9990% off
- Cost per hour
- $11.10/hr
- Reviews▼
- 79% of 2,501
- Critics
- 71 players 8 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 19% Multiplayer
Holding it back: Reviews, Reach
Watch this gameOne alert at $0.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 0.9h
- To 100%
- 28h 31.1x the story
- Achievements
- 58
Price and sales
- Sales
- 132 on record
- Typical cut
- 82% off
- Steam low
- $0.99 September 2021
- Sale every
- 32d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 0 now
- Cheaper than
- 34% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 76% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
40% start to 1% rarestA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 132 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 82 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 12 days ago.
Its score puts it in the top 19 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 66 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 76 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Natural Selection 2 ($4.99, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats Executive Assault ($12.99, scores 45).
More about Nuclear Dawn
The press gave it 71; the people who bought it give it 79 percent. An 8-point gap in the buyer's favour.
1 of the 268 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 56 percent of the 387 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 24 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 0.9 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 28, 31 times as much.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 12 days ago.
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
What players say
Disclaimer: This was €1. Regardless of that? It's awesome! Even at the full price, I'd still recommend it for some mindless fun. Just be aware the game is slightly janky and the multiplayer is basically dead -- it's one of those games that really needs other players to reach it's full potential, so maybe try and get some buddies to play with you. Graphics: Stylish as hell for a 2000's Source game. Things are a...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Of course, it is sad that this game is dead now, but I really liked it. There is really no replacement for this, which is sad. The concept was really something else and I hope we will see some game in the future, making use of this RTS+FPS style.
Back when this game first came out it was fun, but the servers are 100% dead with 0 active players.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Explore war-torn post-apocalyptic landscapes and take fight against enemies using various weapons in this FPS/RTS hybrid.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 6 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Nuclear Dawn scores 50/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/17710/nuclear-dawnReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.