R.U.S.E.™
Fair · Strategy · 2010
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $29.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Reviews
- 96% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Integrated graphics or any modern entry-level GPU supporting DirectX 9, 6 GB of storage. Windows only.
A one-of-a-kind real-time strategy game that allows players to bluff their enemies to lead their nation to victory. The Definitive Edition — includes all DLCs and Steam Deck support.
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
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. The score is docked for the missing length.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $2.49, set in December 2014. It has been discounted 11 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 40 percent off, with about 23 weeks between sales.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 8 percent on value. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Soldiers: Heroes of World War II - Enhanced Edition ($4.99, scores 60) beats it on value, while it beats Steel Division: Normandy 44 ($19.99, scores 37).
The press gave it 76; the people who bought it give it 96 percent. A 20-point gap in the buyer's favour.
This site sampled 331 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 5 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2026 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 72 percent of the 223 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
78% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
316 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 18:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
Cite this score
R.U.S.E.™ scores 59/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is not in our data, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/21970/r-u-s-eReviews set the ceiling. With no length in our data, value sits at a neutral middle whatever the price, and the BANG Score is docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Sep 23.
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