Company of Heroes
BANGER · Action · 2006
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $2.99.
- Length
- 19.3h
- Value
- $0.15/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 86% over the last 30 days against 94% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
Delivering a visceral WWII gaming experience, Company of Heroes redefines RTS by bringing the sacrifice of heroic soldiers, war-ravaged environments, and dynamic battlefields to life. Please visit the "Company of Heroes - Legacy Edition" page for additional user reviews.
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $2.99. That was September 2026. 56 discounts in the 9 years on record. They run about 80 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today's $2.99 at 80 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. The nearest things to it, Company of Heroes - Legacy Edition ($7.39, scores 69) and Company of Heroes 3 ($23.99, scores 3), are both worse buys on this math.
Players rate it 94 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 86 percent. Something recent has soured the room. This site sampled 788 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 7 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,221 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,818 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 74 percent of the 458 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
19.3 hours to finish it, 78 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 4.0 times the campaign.
It came out 20 years ago and 864 were still playing it at the last check.
Players
864 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
A true masterpiece game I played the complete campaign several times. Too bad Relic has lost the way!
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.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Company of Heroes scores 92/100 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/228200/company-of-heroesThe 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 2, price as of Sep 24.
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