Imperial Glory

Imperial Glory

Fair · Strategy · 2014

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
13.2h
Value
$0.38/hr
Reviews
78% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
13.2h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
15h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$0.38
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$4.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
78%
1,357 reviews, as of Sep 27
Metacritic
69
critic score
Players
150K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2014

Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 7, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.

It is a time of war in Europe. Driven by new ideas of Enlightenment, the hearts of men and women across the continent are inflamed with dreams of freedom and glory. This is the moment for a military genius to forge himself a name to be remembered throughout all eternity. This is your moment.
Description from the Steam store page.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Value$0.38/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Holding it back
Reviews78% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Length13 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach150K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds3 of 400 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

It has never been cheaper than $0.49. That was April 2015. Its cuts run 60 percent off as a rule. There have been 83 in the 12 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 13 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 72 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Total War: NAPOLEON – Definitive Edition ($19.99, scores 56) beats it on value, while it beats Total War: ROME REMASTERED ($29.99, scores 32).

69 from critics against 78 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.

This site sampled 400 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 3 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 65 percent of the 237 reviews written there were positive, against 78 percent overall, and those are 20 percent of everything written about it.

Players

35 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 19:49 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

I started the game, not expecting much from it, especially since it's an older title. I was apprehensive, and the menu was simple, containing three modes: Campaign, Historical Battles, and an online mode I haven't tried yet. You play in only five countries: France, Britain, Prussia, Russia, and Austria. Each country has its own advantages and disadvantages, so you don't get bored quickly. The game is honestly a bit...
Faris the Savior ✦Recommendedafter 13hAug 2026Read on Steam
love the game! even though it is old there's allot of history, strategy, tactics, research and can expirience allot of stuff like real time battles command your army and play as all of the major countries. im curently playing as every country i'm currently at austria and great britian and russia to go. for people wh oare searching for history games i recommend this game.
gexxxx16Recommendedafter 107hMar 2026Read on Steam
Imperial Glory In today's grand strategy market, Imperial Glory is basically just a poor man's Empire/Napoleon Total War. However, when this game originally came out in 2005, those games didn't exist. At the time Imperial Glory was a pretty good grand strategy game set in Europe and northern Africa from the last 1700s to the early 1800s. Even today that is mostly true. Imperial Glory does suffer from some...
*GearHead*Recommendedafter 26hJan 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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Imperial Glory scores 53/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/277450/imperial-glory
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Critics vs players+9
Critics
69
Players
78
Critics and players agree on this one.
Metacritic critics · 1,357 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperPyro Studios
PublisherKalypso Media Digital
GenreStrategy
Released2014