Halo: Spartan Assault
Fair · Shooter · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $2.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.73/hr
- Reviews▼
- 78% of 4,944
- Critics
- 70 players 8 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 36% Shooter
Holding it back: Reviews
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 4.1h
- To 100%
- 16.6h 4.0x the story
- Achievements
- 25
Price and sales
- Sales
- 67 on record
- Typical cut
- 73% off
- Steam low
- $0.74 November 2020
- Sale every
- 56d last September 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 3 now
- Cheaper than
- 86% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 49% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
81% start to 2% 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
Across all 67 discounts in the 13 years tracked, the median cut is 73 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 36 percent. It is cheaper than 86 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Halo: Spartan Strike ($2.99, scores 57) beats it on value, while it beats Alien Breed: Impact ($9.99, scores 34).
More about Halo: Spartan Assault
The press gave it 70; the people who bought it give it 78 percent. An 8-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Of the 693 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to November 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 66 percent of the 1,601 reviews written there were positive, against 78 percent overall, and those are 36 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 4.1 hours. Doing everything runs 17, 4.0 times as long.
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
Game refuses to start regardless of fixes and offline modes, ty for the 3 hour demo Microsoft...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
This is a game that you could beat within a day if you got the time, but honestly it dosen't have enough substance to be worth it. Only buy it if its on a sale (it recently has gone below a dollar) and you just NEED every Halo game on you're account.
People give this game too hard a time and for what? All because it isn't an FPS? To me, it seems like people were so upset about how 343 was taking the franchise that they were blinded by their hatred and, unfortunately, this game was caught in the crossfire. It's a simple top-down shooter where you play as Spartan Palmer and Davis as they fight to protect Draetheus V and it's moon, X50, from the Storm Covenant I...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Halo: Spartan Assault brings the excitement of Halo combat to Steam for the very first time. Battle your way through 30 action-packed missions against the Covenant as you explore the origin of the Spartan Ops program featured in Halo 4. *DirectX feature level 10 required. *
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 2.5 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
Halo: Spartan Assault scores 52/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/277430/halo-spartan-assaultReviews 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 17, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.