Praetorians
Fair · Strategy · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 17.2h 36.7h to 100%
- Value
- $0.29/hr
- Reviews
- 81% of 706 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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About the game
Praetorians is set amidst the political machinations of an emerging Roman Empire. You will be transported back to the dusty battlefields of Egypt, the combat theaters of Gaul and finally to the heart of the Empire itself, Italy in the crusade to become Emperor.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 7, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 86 times in the 13 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 10 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 79 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines ($4.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Act of Aggression - Reboot Edition ($29.99, scores 15).
More about Praetorians
Of the 201 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 66 percent of the 273 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 47 percent of everything written about it.
17.2 hours to finish it, 37 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.1 times the campaign.
Players
- Players online
- 10 when we last checked, on Oct 17, 21:53 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Praetorians is a historical real-time strategy game developed by Pyro Studios and published on Steam by Kalypso Media Digital that approaches warfare very differently from many strategy titles of its era. Rather than emphasizing large-scale resource collection, city building, or economic expansion, the game places nearly its entire focus on battlefield leadership and tactical decision-making. The result is a...
2 more reviews
8/10 (for its time) First game that I have ever played. Great rts game, ddespite its age, it's still very enjoyable thanks to the unit variety, movement, deployment options, and overall maneuvering. the campaign is good, you can still enjoy it. Very impressive that it still runs on modern pcs unlike some other old games where you need patches
Used to play this as a child and brought back some serious nostalgia playing it again. Highly recommend if you're a fan of strategy games.
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No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Praetorians scores 58/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/277460/praetoriansReviews 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 Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.