Wargame: Airland Battle
Worth it · Strategy · 2013
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99.
- Length
- 32.6h
- Value
- $0.61/hr
- Reviews
- 87% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 15 GB of storage. Windows only.
2 SIDES, 12 NATIONS, 750 UNITS: THE STRATEGY GAME REFERENCE IS BACK! Richer, more beautiful and more accessible, Wargame AirLand Battle is the sequel to the explosive real-time strategy game Wargame European Escalation! 1985.
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $2.39. That was December 2019. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 85 in the 13 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 12 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 91 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Wargame: Red Dragon ($29.99, scores 78) beats it on value, while it beats Wargame: European Escalation ($9.99, scores 53).
Of the 425 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 49 percent of the 359 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
Players
13 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
So this game is honestly great, however you really need to pay attention as this is not just another average RTS game, you need to take your time in this game and understand the importance of each unit and how to manage your units. It's very important to have the upper hand in this game and be ahead of your enemies because believe me, this game will break you and make you. Every loss is a chance to learn. When i...
Very fun to get into, only issue is the lack of many vehicles but its only a minor problem tbh
Most people (especially in my generation) dont think about the cold war no more. But this game is great if ye do want to go back into those days. It took a sec to learn, but I think I got it.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Wargame: Airland Battle scores 74/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/222750/wargame-airland-battleThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 1, price as of Sep 24.
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