Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance
Fair · Strategy · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Fair at $23.99, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Feb 2024. Buy it now if you want it.
- Length
- 43.2h
- Value
- $0.56/hr
- Reviews
- 83% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 40% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 30% ($27.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 35% ($25.99)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Geforce GTX 750 (2GB), 25 GB of storage. Windows only.
Terminator: Dark Fate – Defiance is not just a game; it's an adrenaline-fueled journey where your strategic prowess decides the fate of mankind against the machines. After the machines took over, the greatest threats may not come from the machines but rather from other human survivors.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
September 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $23.99. 24 discounts in the 3 years on record. They run about 30 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today's $23.99 at 40 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
At full price it scores 62. The current cut is what makes it a 64.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 6 percent on value. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 85 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Last Train Home ($13.19, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats Carrier Command 2 ($29.99, scores 53).
The press gave it 72; the people who bought it give it 83 percent. An 11-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data puts under 1 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 43.2-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 25 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 56 percent of the 287 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
76% start to <1% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 43.2-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
480 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 18:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Awesome Underrated Game. Love the scavenging before the end of each mission to carry over as much as possible
There is no fate but what we make. Terminator: Dark Fate timeline should be absolute garbage. And yet... Its clear this game was made by people who have a lot of love for this franchise. The fact that they have created such a compelling story out the ashes of nothing makes me want to yell at Hollywood "SLITHERINE MADE THIS IN A CAVE... WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS". I dont know, by the end of the campaign, the main...
Not a real RTS, I just wanted to build units but you can't. Disappointed just like the movie. That style where you have to pick units before the map starts is real bad.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance scores 64/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1839950/terminator-dark-fate-defianceReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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