Empires Mod

Empires Mod

Worth it · Multiplayer · 2008

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

PLAY IT.

Worth it, and it costs nothing.

PriceS
Free to play
Reviews▼
87% of 1,069
Genre rank
Top 5% Multiplayer

Holding it back: Reviews, Reach

Time and effort

Achievements
8

Players and genre

Online
30 now
Better reviewed
90% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

53% start to 44% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

A 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

Against its own genre its score lands in the top 5 percent. It is better reviewed than 90 percent of its genre. Among the games closest to it, Nuclear Dawn ($9.99, scores 50) and Neighbors: Suburban Warfare (free, scores 9) both come in lower.

It is still busy. 30 players were online when we last checked, on Nov 6, 20:50 UTC, across 35 days of weekly checks.

Buy now or wait

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

Raising the score
Cost per hourFree
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones. Scored as 86% after the small-sample adjustment
Reach750K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). A free game has no price to weigh, so this is its value read
For context
RefundsFree
A free game cannot be refunded, so the label never applies
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Unique strategy/first person shooter mix: One commander on each team plays from above, choosing research, placing buildings and giving orders. The rest fill the role of soldiers on the ground, with four distinct classes to choose from and customizable vehicles to drive.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 128 MB or more with support for Pixel Shader 2.0b, 8 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.

No data upstream: length (HowLongToBeat), critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Empires Mod scores 69/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/17740/empires-mod
Embed the live badge

Reviews 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. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Details

DeveloperEmpires
PublisherEmpires
GenreMultiplayer
Released2008
Players750Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements8