Battle Nations

Battle Nations

Skip · Strategy · 2014

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

The reviews do not carry it. What it costs you is time.

Length
31.3h
Price
Free to play
Reviews
73% positive
Length
31.3h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
Free
price ÷ main-story length
Price
Free
Reviews
73%
1,900 reviews, as of Sep 26
Players
350K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2014

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 10 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

Battle Nations is back! Build your empire and lead your armies to victory! Choose from traditional troops and vehicles or unleash exotic forces like mammoths, velociraptors, sandworms, and futuristic plasma units!
Description from the Steam store page.

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

What we assumed
  • Steam lists in-app purchases but we have no detail on them. Small caution applied.
Raising the score
ValueFree
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Holding it back
Reviews73% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach350K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). A free game has no price to weigh, so this is its value read
MonetizationIn-app purchases
Steam lists in-app purchases and nothing more is known, so a small haircut
DRMMadronaID account needed
Needs a second account on top of Steam, a small friction discount
For context
Length31 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
RefundsFree
A free game cannot be refunded, so the label never applies
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

Value puts it in the top 41 percent of the games it competes with. Among the games that feel like it, Pool Nation FX Lite (free, scores 34) beats it on value, while it beats AdVenture Communist (free, scores 13).

178 players were online in it when we last checked, on Oct 1, 04:49 UTC.

The drop-off

51% start to 4% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements

Players

178 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 04:49 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Battle Nations scores 33/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/251670/battle-nations
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Reviews 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 Sep 26.

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Details

DeveloperMadrona Games Inc
PublisherMadrona Games Inc
GenreStrategy
Released2014
Achievements32