Wargame: Red Dragon
Worth it · Strategy · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $29.99.
- Length
- 49.1h
- Value
- $0.61/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 20 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The new reference in RTS at its best! The Wargame series returns to duty, larger, richer and more spectacular than ever before. In Wargame Red Dragon, you are engaged in a large-scale conflict where Western forces clash against the Communist bloc.
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How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $4.49. That was August 2026. It has been discounted 86 times in the 13 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Ultimate General: Civil War ($29.99, scores 80) beats it on value, while it beats Wargame: Airland Battle ($19.99, scores 74).
78 from critics against 89 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
13 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 47 percent of the 962 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
Players
434 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
Quite good for PVP but for PVE its awful. AI cheats and spams way too many units... Overall not worth buying over warno unless you like the novelty of having a lot of different factions which i understand
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.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Wargame: Red Dragon scores 78/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/251060/wargame-red-dragonThe 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 Aug 1, price as of Sep 24.
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