Jagged Alliance Flashback
Skip · RPG · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 1, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 21h 39.5h to 100%
- Value
- $0.95/hr
- Reviews
- 47% of 777 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
Jagged Alliance Flashback brings back the true spirit of this legendary series: Turn-based tactics meets crazy mercenary personalities and intense battles. Manage your squad of unique mercenaries, secure your income and take back the island - sector by sector, turn by turn.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel 4400 / AMD HD 6670, 5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 88 times in the 12 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 99 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Hard West ($19.99, scores 35) and Blackguards ($0.99, scores 18) both outscore it.
More about Jagged Alliance Flashback
Steam's global achievement data puts about 9 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 21-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Inside the two-hour refund window, 19 percent of the 108 reviews written there were positive, against 47 percent overall, and those are 25 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
45% start to 9% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
What players say
1. Has about 15% of the content in JA2. 2. No feeling or caring about the mercs at all as done so well in JA2. 3. About the only real thing this has in common with JA2 or JA is some artwork and names of the mercs. 4. Not even a finished or complete game as a stand alone product, and a galaxy away from the awesome JA2. 5. One product I wish I could just get my money back. Now jaded about backing or early accessing...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Ok let's be honest here, I love Turn-Based games and I remember playing Jagged Alliance 2 when I was a kid.. But this here.... I tried, I really REALLY tried to like this game, but there is nothing to like about this game. It is shallow, not only shallow it is bare, empty... it is a empty void with few shells that are the "game". AI if one may even call it that way is next to non-existent. Enemies will just charge...
This is one of those "I am more meh on the game and my review is intended to more have the game's rating be skewed towards neutral than negative" reviews. JA Flashback is an enjoyable lower budget JA game by a small indie team that didn't have much of a budget. The game suffers from some drastic changes (such as handguns having better hit chances than rifles at close range, morale penalty for being outnumbered being...
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Cite this score
Jagged Alliance Flashback scores 1/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/256010/jagged-alliance-flashbackReviews 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 Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.