The Red Solstice
Skip · Strategy · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $0.99.
- Length
- 14.9h
- Value
- $0.07/hr
- Reviews
- 71% positive
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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.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.99. That was June 2022. It has been discounted 81 times in the 12 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today's $0.99 at 90 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
On value it sits in the top 50 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 69 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).
Inside the two-hour refund window, 40 percent of the 169 reviews written there were positive, against 71 percent overall, and those are 19 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
26% start to 4% rarestNo 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
5 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
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.
A fantastic tactical sci-fi strategy game with intense combat, cooperative gameplay, and challenging missions that keep players immersed and engaged for hours.
In this game, you control the main character and give orders to a squad of 3 elite Marines with two-digit IQ per squad. It is therefore not surprising that orders must be given several times in a row and constant monitoring must be carried out to ensure that they do not fall into fire, acid, or are blown up by a mine. Unfortunately, the game is full of bugs that have never been fixed. Some of them can completely...
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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The Red Solstice scores 30/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/265590/the-red-solsticeThe 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 Sep 12, price as of Sep 24.
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