Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon
Fair · Shooter · 2011
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 5.2h
- Value
- $1.92/hr
- Reviews
- 87% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 6 GB of storage. Windows only.
Thousands of giant insects and aliens once again ravage the earth, and only the Earth Defense Force can stop them.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
The lowest price on record is $0.99, set in December 2017. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 16 in the 14 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 23 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 71 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, STAR WARS™ Battlefront™ II ($9.99, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats Aliens: Fireteam Elite ($29.99, scores 56).
The press gave it 69; the people who bought it give it 87 percent. An 18-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data puts 31 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. This site sampled 239 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 69 percent of the 130 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.
5.2 hours to finish it, 12 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.3 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 5.2 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
92% start to 31% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
3 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 13:12 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Insect Armageddon is an offshoot of the EDF series. It has the same level of entertainment in 2026 as it did 15 years earlier in 2011... it's alright. I do not recommend this game if you haven't played the mainline Earth Defense Force Games as they are far better. Plenty of games, so so many other games are better than this one. However, if you enjoy EDF and you are curious at how this game is, definitely pick it...
it's a bit repetitive and outdated by today's standards, but the gameplay loop is so satisfying when you just want to turn your brain off and blast huge bugs. Perfect game to boot up, mess around for a bit, and blow everything up ))))
This is not EDF. This is more like that cheap mobile knock off of EDF. Do not buy this.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon scores 64/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/23530/earth-defense-force-insect-armageddonReviews 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 Sep 27, price as of Oct 1.
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