War Thunder
Skip · Multiplayer · 2013
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The reviews do not carry it. What it costs you is time.
- PriceS
- Free to play
- Reviews▼
- 71% of 796,052
- Critics
- 81 players 10 lower
- Genre rank
- Top 42% Multiplayer
Holding it back: Reviews
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 814h
- To 100%
- 4627.7h 5.7x the story
- Achievements
- 91
Players and genre
- Online
- 73,045 now
- Recent reviews
- 71% 30 days
- Better reviewed
- 45% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
39% start to <1% rarestA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 42 percent. Among the games that feel like it, World of Tanks (free, scores 42) beats it on value, while it beats WWII Online (free, scores 0).
It is still busy. 73.0K players were online when we last checked, on Nov 3, 12:45 UTC, across 35 days of weekly checks.
More about War Thunder
81 on Metacritic, 71 percent from players. A gap this way round is usually launch damage or a slow decline.
Inside the two-hour refund window, 52 percent of the 141 reviews written there were positive, against 71 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 814 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 4628, 5.7 times as much.
796,052 reviews stand behind that percentage.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
Buy now or wait
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
Fix Simulator Battles, listen to the community (more than just that one time a couple years ago), and for the love of God quit using AI to make profile pictures or upscale textures.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
i have roamed this earth for 15 years, 5000+ days on grass, soil, sand, mud, concrete and asphalt, before that day i installed this abomination of a game i had never thought i could ever feel true hatred, i never thought i would be praying to anyone who listens to bring the utmost misfortune upon a person and his generations that were and are to come, here i am writing this review, when i should be studying for an...
1. Spawn into game. 2. Drive for 4 minutes. 3. Get one shot be someone you never saw. 4. Respawn. 5. Get bombed. 6. Respawn again. 7. Realize you have no sliver lions. 8. Grind for 3 hours. 9. Unlock a vehicle. 10. Realize you need 300,000 RP for the next one. 11. Repeat until your emotionally damaged. 10/10 would uninstall and reinstall again.
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About the game
War Thunder is the most comprehensive free-to-play, cross-platform, MMO military game dedicated to aviation, armoured vehicles, and naval craft, from the early 20th century to the most advanced modern combat units. Join now and take part in major battles on land, in the air, and at sea.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 70 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
War Thunder scores 31/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/236390/war-thunderReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 3. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.