Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor

Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor

BANGER · Strategy · 2009

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

BUY IT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

A BANGER at $3.99, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Jan 2013.

Cost per hourS
$0.89/hr
ReviewsS
92% of 2,405
Critics
70 players 22 higher
Genre rank
Top 1% Strategy

Score at full price

Fair$19.99

Score today

−80%SALE BANGERBANGER
Watch this gameAlready a BANGER on sale. Pick a lower price.

Time and effort

Main story
4.5h
To 100%
24.7h 5.5x the story

Price and sales

Sales
76 on record
Typical cut
75% off
Steam low
$3.99 July 2019
Sale every
46d last November 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $1.99 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
61 now
Cheaper than
7% of its genre
Better reviewed
97% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story

The value story

It has never been cheaper than $3.99. That was July 2019. It has been discounted 76 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 7 weeks apart.

Its score sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Company of Heroes - Legacy Edition ($36.99, scores 89) beats it on value, while it beats Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts ($3.99, scores 84).

The math says it holds its tier up to $6.17.

More about Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor

The press gave it 70; the people who bought it give it 92 percent. A 22-point gap in the buyer's favour.

Of the 359 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 268 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.

Finishing takes 4.5 hours; clearing it takes 25, which is 5.5 times the campaign.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.

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

Raising the score
Cost per hour$0.89/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set. That is today's sale price. Normally $4.44/hr
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 359 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

Even though this is a somewhat older game, the simplicity makes it more preferable for the "I want to play some game without using too many brain cells" time. I love the feeling of "I know I'm gonna fail", but eventually, table turns.
KinG CraBRecommendedafter 32hMar 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

Company of Heroes®: Tales of Valor™ is the expansion to the Game of the Year winner and highest rated real time strategy franchise Company of Heroes®. Featuring new campaigns to overcome, units to command, and battlefields to conquer, Company of Heroes®: Tales of Valor™ delivers evolved gameplay mechanics and 3 episodic adventures...
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory. Windows only.

No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor scores 86/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/20540/company-of-heroes-tales-of-valor
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Reviews 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 Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+22
Critics70
Players92
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 2,405 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperRelic Entertainment
PublisherSEGA
GenreStrategy
Released2009
Players750Kowners, SteamSpy estimate