Insurgency
BANGER · Shooter · 2014
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $14.99.
- Length
- 12h
- Value
- $1.25/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 10 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Take to the streets for intense close quarters combat, where a team's survival depends upon securing crucial strongholds and destroying enemy supply in this multiplayer and cooperative Source Engine based experience.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.49. That was June 2017. 91 discounts in the 13 years on record. They run about 66 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 25 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 4 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 64 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Day of Infamy ($14.99, scores 36) and Squad 44 ($19.99, scores 27).
$47.75 is where it would stop being a BANGER. Today it is $14.99.
Critics scored it 74. Players sit 18 points higher at 92 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
30 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2022 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 68 percent of the 10,075 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
12 hours to finish it, 59 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 4.9 times the campaign.
The rating rests on 124,611 reviews, so it is not going to move much from here.
The drop-off
47% start to 3% 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
154 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
One of the best realistic shooting games, it immerses you in the atmosphere and makes you focus as if you were the soldier in the game. It has a moderate player base, which is great after all these years. This game laid the foundation for realistic games; even if you play with the army, you'll see realistic army uniforms and modern weapons. They can't use old weapons, while the terrorists have their own uniforms and...
insurgency sandstorm is better but this is still a hella good game that can run on lower end PCs (since it's on the source engine, if you can run css/tf2/csgo/portal/l4d, you should try this), sadly kinda dead but still has people playing, and you can still drop people like potato bags in 2 shots with 0 issues, nothing will ever beat the feeling of doing that
horrible gameplay, junk environment, trash teammates, bad servers, pretty much a dead game. "better than most 2026 fps" they said. 1/10
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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Insurgency scores 86/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/222880/insurgencyThe 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 Sep 12, price as of Sep 24.
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