The Front
Skip · Shooter · 2025
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 12, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Reviews▼
- 66% of 10,707
- Genre rank
- Top 82% Shooter
Holding it back: Reviews, Length unknown
Why
Watch this gameOne alert when a sale makes it a BANGER.
Price and sales
- Sales
- 27 on record
- Typical cut
- 40% off
- Steam low
- $7.99 November 2024
- Sale every
- 41d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 50 now
- Cheaper than
- 16% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 22% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
27 discounts in the 3 years on record, a median of 40 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 78 percent. Among the games that feel like it, DeadPoly ($9.99, scores 35) beats it on value, while it beats Out of Reach ($1.64, scores 2).
More about The Front
15 of the 598 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2024 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,424 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 261 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 35 percent of the 1,517 reviews written there were positive, against 66 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 4 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 16 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is 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.
About the game
The Front is a survival open-world crafting sandbox game. You are a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop the rise of a tyrannical empire. Collect resources, craft tech, build shelters, and fight monsters to accomplish your mission.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB, 40 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: length (HowLongToBeat), critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
The Front scores 12/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 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/2285150/the-frontReviews 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 Oct 31, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.