The Red Solstice
Skip · Strategy · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 30, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.56/hr
- Reviews▼
- 71% of 2,559
- Critics
- 74 players 3 lower
- Genre rank
- Top 48% Strategy
Holding it back: DRM, Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 17.8h
- Achievements
- 73
Price and sales
- Sales
- 82 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $0.99 June 2022
- Sale every
- 42d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 0 now
- Cheaper than
- 29% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 34% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
26% start to 4% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 82 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 about 4 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 48 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 71 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 66 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Halo Wars: Definitive Edition ($19.99, scores 85) beats it on value, while it beats Satellite Reign ($29.99, scores 29).
More about The Red Solstice
Inside the two-hour refund window, 39 percent of the 170 reviews written there were positive, against 71 percent overall, and those are 19 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
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
Short but challenging. Good enough for the price. I saw a few reviews saying this doesn't work on AMD cards but I had no issues at all.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
A fantastic tactical sci-fi strategy game with intense combat, cooperative gameplay, and challenging missions that keep players immersed and engaged for hours.
I could go on about all the bugs, missing tooltips and other problems this game has, but I wont waste time and just say that this game was designed for multiplayer and cooperation and is a nightmare to play solo. You get 4 bot teammates (instead of the maximum of 8 players total) but the bots wont use items on their own and switching between your guys to give them command every 5 seconds gets old pretty quick. Ive...
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About the game
2280 A.D. The last few survivors of a ruined Earth seek a new home: Mars, a planet whose inhabitants didn't take too kindly to outsiders. The Red Solstice is a tense, tactical, squad-based action game. Fight to survive with up to 8 players in co-op, or lead your own squad in single-player mode.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, ATI Radeon HD 3800 / Nvidia GeForce 9600 GT or Better, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
The Red Solstice scores 30/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/265590/the-red-solsticeReviews 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 Nov 5, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.