Valiant Hearts: The Great War™ / Soldats Inconnus : Mémoires de la Grande Guerre™
Worth it · Narrative · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$14.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$3.7475% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.27/hr
- ReviewsS
- 96% of 27,760
- Genre rank
- Top 5% Narrative
Holding it back: DRM, Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.74 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 6.6h
- To 100%
- 9.2h 1.4x the story
- Finish
- 9% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 20
Price and sales
- Sales
- 86 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $3.74 March 2015
- Sale every
- 46d last September 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 29 now
- Recent reviews
- 97% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 17% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 98% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
9% start to 9% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
86 discounts in the 12 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. It becomes a BANGER at $8.23, a level the record has reached 85 times.
Its score puts it in the top 5 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 83 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Syberia: The World Before ($7.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats 11-11 Memories Retold ($4.49, scores 69).
More about Valiant Hearts: The Great War™ / Soldats Inconnus : Mémoires de la Grande Guerre™
Steam's global achievement data puts about 9 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 6.6-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 772 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 1,775 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 7 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
What players say
I had this game for a very long time, and finally decided to play it on my Steam Deck. Absotutely loved it, and immediately added to my favourites. The story, the art style, the depiction of the World War I, are just moving. It also runs greatly on Steam Deck, except one particular "boss fight" where I had to increase FPS cap for certain scripted events to work.
2 more reviews
A different approach to a war game. It's an educational (and emotional) journey about the events of World War 1. A story shown through the lens of friendship and family, with less focus on geopolitics and more about the people involved, both civilians and soldiers. The gameplay is simple and easy to get engaged with, just little puzzles and a bit of action. It serves more as an excuse to experience this masterfully...
I love the game, finished it on PS4 back when it was released and later bought it on Steam just for support. It is a wonderful game. That being said, almost 13 years after its release, it is still requiring big updates every other week. I will have to delete it if it goes on like this. Great game though.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Valiant Hearts : The Great War is the story of 4 crossed destinies and a broken love in a world torn apart. Dive into a 2D animated comic book adventure, mixing exploration, action and puzzles. Lost in the middle of the trenches, play as each of the 4 strangers, relive the War and help a young German soldier find his love.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, nVidia GeForce 8800 GT or AMD Radeon HD2900 XT (512MB VRAM), 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Valiant Hearts: The Great War™ / Soldats Inconnus : Mémoires de la Grande Guerre™ scores 74/100 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/260230/valiant-hearts-the-great-war-soldats-inconnus-m-moires-de-la-grande-guerreReviews 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.