War for the Overworld
Fair · Strategy · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $29.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 15h
- Value
- $2.00/hr
- Reviews
- 86% positive
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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.
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.
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 $2.99. That was November 2020. It has been discounted 94 times in the 13 years tracked here, typically at 80 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 5 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 8 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, SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition ($19.99, scores 64) beats it on value, while it beats The Crust ($20.79, scores 34).
Steam's global achievement data says under 1 percent of players ever finish it. On a 15-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. This site sampled 621 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 3 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 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.
The drop-off
82% start to <1% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 15-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
59 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
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.
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...
if you love dungeon keeper this is very similar! Played for 5 hours the first time i logged in! Also - it says that it doesn't work with MacOS 10 or later - but it worked with mine! Only slightly glitchy mouse behavior. totally playable!
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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War for the Overworld scores 59/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/230190/war-for-the-overworldThe 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 16, price as of Sep 24.
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