Original War
BANGER · Strategy · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
A BANGER 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
$9.99BANGER
Typical seasonal cut
$1.9980% offBANGER
- Cost per hourS
- $0.54/hr
- ReviewsS
- 95% of 2,181
- Critics
- 61 players 34 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Strategy
Watch this gameOne alert at $1.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 18.6h
- To 100%
- 65.2h 3.5x the story
- Achievements
- 59
Price and sales
- Sales
- 89 on record
- Typical cut
- 80% off
- Steam low
- $0.99 June 2014
- Sale every
- 41d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 4 now
- Cheaper than
- 29% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
73% start to 2% 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
89 discounts in the 13 years on record, a median of 80 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 1 percent. It is pricier than 71 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. The nearest things to it, Crying Suns ($24.99, scores 64) and Nexus - The Jupiter Incident ($9.99, scores 53), are both worse buys on this math.
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $19.25. It costs $9.99.
More about Original War
61 from critics against 95 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Of the 341 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 75 percent of the 259 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.
18.6 hours to finish it, 65 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.5 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 31 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
Legendary RTS game - I recommend playing it just for the sake of original story :)
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Don't pay too much attention to my playtime. I was one of the lucky people who owned this game long before Steam became popular, back when it came on CD-ROM. Original War is a fantastic game with a unique story and gameplay. It gave me the same special feeling I got from SpellForce 1, where your companions truly matter and become an important part of the experience. The voice acting ranges from good to excellent...
Pros: awesome story, awesome retro graphics, awesome dialogues, it's created on Delphi 7 ) Cons: timers. Timers, TIMERS and MORE F..CKING TIMERS!!! WTF guys ? why this all gutdem timers & for what ? even with ArtMoney and CheatEngine it's unplayable because of f..cking timers. I just want to play in rts/tactic game, not a winning the race.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
An American geological expedition, under a UN mandate, assesses the natural resources in a distant part of Siberia, deep in the trackless steppes of Eastern Russia. But instead of oil, they discover a deposit of a hitherto unknown mineral.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, OpenGL 2.1 compatible with alteast 64 MB of VRAM, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
Original War scores 91/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/235320/original-warReviews 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 Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.