Jagged Alliance 1: Gold Edition

Jagged Alliance 1: Gold Edition

Fair · RPG · 2014

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $2.49. Buy it if you want it.

Length
10.6h 29.8h to 100%
Value
$0.23/hr
Reviews
78% of 513 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

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$0.24/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 Scored as 77% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 91 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

About the game

Experience a true classic! This Gold edition includes the original Jagged Alliance plus the add-on Jagged Alliance: Deadly Games. Take a trip into retro land and learn why this is considered to be one the best turn-based games of all times.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 3D graphics card compatible, 1.2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

The value story

It has never been cheaper than $1.99. That was June 2018. Across all 44 discounts in the 12 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 7 weeks apart.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 17 percent on value. It is pricier than 61 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 68 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Jagged Alliance 3 ($44.99, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Blackguards ($0.99, scores 18).

More about Jagged Alliance 1: Gold Edition

Finishing takes 10.6 hours; clearing it takes 30, which is 2.8 times the campaign.

Players

Players online
12 when we last checked, on Oct 11, 15:55 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

An awesome classic game. Been playing it for years. It can be frustrating but then if it wasn't, it would be easy, and I wouldn't keep playing it.
brigitsrainRecommendedafter 166hJan 2026Read on Steam
1 more review
playing it since i was a little child I never know that ctrl + f would skip a turn it could have been sooo easy in my early days instead it frustrated me so much but thats where the fun and grind starts for ya'll
Nimo The BindestrichRecommendedafter 44hDec 2025Read on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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Jagged Alliance 1: Gold Edition scores 51/100 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/283270/jagged-alliance-1-gold-edition
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Reviews 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 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperSir-Tech
PublisherTHQ Nordic
GenreRPG
Released2014
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate