Wargame: Red Dragon

Wargame: Red Dragon

Worth it · Strategy · 2014

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Worth it 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

$29.99Worth it

Typical seasonal cut

$7.4975% offWorth it

Cost per hourS
$0.61/hr
Reviews▼
89% of 19,786
Critics
78 players 11 higher
Genre rank
Top 2% Strategy

Holding it back: DRM, Reviews

Why
No price makes it a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $7.49 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
49.1h

Price and sales

Sales
87 on record
Typical cut
75% off
Steam low
$4.49 August 2026
Sale every
46d last October 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $4.49 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
182 now
Cheaper than
3% of its genre
Better reviewed
94% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story

The value story

It has been discounted 87 times in the 13 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Its score sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games closest to it, Wargame: Airland Battle ($19.99, scores 74) and Wargame: European Escalation ($9.99, scores 53) both come in lower.

More about Wargame: Red Dragon

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.

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

Raising the score
Cost per hour$0.61/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
MonetizationNone
No in-game purchases. Paid DLC exists and is not docked
Holding it back
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
DRMEugNet account needed
Needs a second account on top of Steam, a small friction discount
For context
Refunds13 of 800 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

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
✪ FjordNot recommendedafter 15hJul 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

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.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 20 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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Wargame: Red Dragon scores 78/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/251060/wargame-red-dragon
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Reviews 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 Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+11
Critics78
Players89
Metacritic critics · 19,786 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperEugen Systems
PublisherEugen Systems
GenreStrategy
Released2014
Players1.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate