Iron Marines Invasion
Skip · Action · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 21, under the fair line, at $14.99.
- Length
- 10.2h
- Value
- $1.47/hr
- Reviews
- 67% of 372 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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About the game
Prepare to take off, soldier! The galaxy needs your strategy! Prove your RTS expertise, explore an entire galaxy and defend it from a threatening invasion.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, OpenGL 3.0 compliant with 512MB of video RAM., 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 25 times in the 3 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 83 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 80 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Home Wars ($7.99, scores 41) beats it on value, while it beats Company of Heroes 3 ($59.99, scores 3).
More about Iron Marines Invasion
Steam's global achievement data puts 21 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. This site sampled 333 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written November 2023 to August 2026.
The drop-off
91% start to 21% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
What players say
The original Iron Marines was phenomenal, Invasion on the other hand, despite being developed as a sequel, is worse in almost every aspect - The graphics is worse (resolution and art style), sound fx is worse (VA and mixing), UI as a whole is way worse (unresponsive with clunky animation). Mission design is downright lazy, not terrible but definitely boring to some extend. The addition of cutscenes is mostly...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
The first Iron Marines is already pretty flawed, but it managed to be a good game in spite of itself. Iron Marines Invasion is just broken. Units ignore orders for long period before finally following them, melee units just kinda get confused sometimes, it's impossible to intentionally target enemies for no reason sometimes (the final boss is a big offender here), the aggro range on your units is so short they just...
Mobile: 8/10 ; PC: 6.5/10 A successful expansion outward, but at the cost of depth-and with even more bugs than its predecessor. Your experience with Iron Marines: Invasion depends heavily on what kind of game you expect it to be. If you're looking for "a lightweight, mobile-scale RTS with a distinctive Ironhide style," then there's no question that it succeeds. But if you approach it strictly as "a smooth...
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Cite this score
Iron Marines Invasion scores 21/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2187920/iron-marines-invasionReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.