War for the Overworld
Fair · Strategy · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 80% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$29.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$5.9980% offWorth it
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.00/hr
- Reviews▼
- 86% of 8,137
- Genre rank
- Top 10% Strategy
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 15h
- To 100%
- 55.6h 3.7x the story
- Achievements
- 142
Price and sales
- Sales
- 95 on record
- Typical cut
- 80% off
- Steam low
- $2.99 November 2020
- Sale every
- 40d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 91 now
- Cheaper than
- 3% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 90% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
82% start to <1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 95 times in the 13 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 80 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 10 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Dungeons 2 ($4.99, scores 63) beats it on value, while it beats Ruinarch ($24.99, scores 7).
More about War for the Overworld
This site sampled 623 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 3 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 66 percent of the 597 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
15 hours to finish it, 56 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.7 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 24 days ago.
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
What players say
Pretty close approach to old Dungeon Keeper players. As other have reviewed, missions are "time oriented" and the game pushes you to kind of rush each level to avoid a steep increase on difficulty as time passes by. Nonetheless, enjoyable and fun, keeping most of the old DK dark humor.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I genuinely have played this game since pretty much just after it released, and only now writing a review? I remember every update, I have played so many RTS games and there is nothing like WFTO. While I have a few issues with the game and it is most likely not for everyone. It is a real shame how underrated this game. I also think the artstyle is unique and fits this game very well. However, I do still think this...
Base Game: Dungeon Keeper 2 clone turned wannabe RTS - too short, uninspired campaign 20h/40h achievs - new units poorly introduced, strengths/weaknesses/synergies - same with spells, techs - rushed game/play: objective/chokepoint control instead of freeplay - awful achievements, just time checks to force continues mission replay - completing speed challenges breaks triggers/dialogues, i.e. dead lords will do their...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
War for the Overworld is an unholy union of Dungeon Management and Strategy that rewards all those villainous thoughts you’ve been having. Craft your own perilous dungeon and defend it against pesky heroes who keep exploring it and taking your stuff.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GT450 512MB or better, ATI 4870HD 512MB or better, 7 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
War for the Overworld scores 59/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/230190/war-for-the-overworldReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 13, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.