This War of Mine
BANGER · Strategy · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $1.99.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.18/hr
- ReviewsS
- 94% of 98,107
- Critics
- 83 players 11 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Strategy
Recent reviews trending down: 86% over the last 30 days against 94% all-time.
Watch this gameAlready a BANGER on sale. Pick a lower price.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 11.3h
- To 100%
- 46.7h 4.1x the story
- Finish
- 23% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 59
Price and sales
- Sales
- 106 on record
- Typical cut
- 80% off
- Steam low
- $0.99 June 2025
- Sale every
- 37d last November 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 1,101 now
- Recent reviews
- 86% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 7% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 98% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
72% start to 23% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
June 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $0.99. It has been discounted 106 times in the 12 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 80 percent, about 5 weeks apart.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 1 percent. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including The Last Haven ($9.99, scores 6) and Frostpunk 2 ($20.24, scores 46).
$43.99 is where it would stop being a BANGER.
More about This War of Mine
The press gave it 83; the people who bought it give it 94 percent. An 11-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data puts 23 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18. Players rate it 94 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 86 percent. Something recent has soured the room. 6 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2025 to October 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,604 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,224 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 82 percent of the 5,356 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (cosmetic); the score docks it lightly for that.
Finishing takes 11.3 hours; clearing it takes 47, which is 4.1 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- 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
Played this game for 250+ Hours and the DLC Would Recommend a play if you love moments where you have decisions that are very important. Do I save this band aid for someone that may NEED it later or do I take these items to build something that will lead to get a steady food source so I do not starve later on. It's decisions like this that have made my play this game for 250+ hours.
2 more reviews
I made it to day 17, at which point I visited the local church. While searching there, the priest lied and said they were just robbed and didn't have much left. Upon further inspection, I found a bunch of stuff, at which point the priest warned me to leave. To make a long story short, I killed the priest and a few innocent people in their beds while they slept, never to awaken again. I hung myself out of shame for...
This game is pretty good. It's a little pretentious at times but I still had fun.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
In This War Of Mine you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city; struggling with lack of food, medicine and constant danger from snipers and hostile scavengers. The game provides an experience of war seen from an entirely new angle.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 260, Radeon HD 5770, 1024 MB, Shader Model 3.0. Runs on Windows, Linux.
Cite this score
This War of Mine scores 89/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/282070/this-war-of-mineReviews 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.