Valiant Hearts: The Great War™ / Soldats Inconnus : Mémoires de la Grande Guerre™
BANGER · Narrative · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $3.74.
- Length
- 6.6h
- Value
- $0.57/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
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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.
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.
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $3.74. That was March 2015. 86 discounts in the 12 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today's $3.74 at 75 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Take the discount away and it is a 74. With it, 94.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 82 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games closest to it, Downfall ($8.99, scores 63) and The Case of the Golden Idol ($17.99, scores 72) both come in lower.
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $8.18. It costs $3.74.
Steam's global achievement data says about 8 percent of players ever finish it. On a 6.6-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. This site sampled 761 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 1,762 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
8% start to 8% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 6.6-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
25 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
Very good game interesting story,educational,low end pcs can handle this and not very hard puzzles which I like very much
Replayed this game after beating it almost a decade ago and it still managed to make me sad. Valiant Hearts: The Great War is one of the greatest historical war game of all time since it manages to keep the player captivated all throughout its 10ish hours of playtime with a great story, good levels design/game play and of course its well written cast of main characters. Its messages of the horrors of war and the...
This is the first game I bought on steam, it opened a lot of things for me. It started the journey of owning games and me playing them (this and hollow knight) and actually enjoying them. I never thought of buying games on steam because my pc isnt the best, but I can play some amazing little games like this and thats enough for me. An emotional story, with nice puzzles, LOVED THE DESIGN AND ART STYLE, Emiles letters...
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.
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Valiant Hearts: The Great War™ / Soldats Inconnus : Mémoires de la Grande Guerre™ scores 94/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). 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-guerreThe 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 2, price as of Sep 24.
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