Battleplan: American Civil War
Skip · Strategy · 2014
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $9.99.
- Length
- 1.5h
- Value
- $6.66/hr
- Reviews
- 46% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, GL 2.1, 399 MB of storage. Windows only.
Battleplan: American Civil War introduces you to fastplay wargaming, a new kind of strategy game experience. Take command of either Confederate or Union troops and fight your way through eleven of the American Civil War’s most famous battles.
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How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.19. That was January 2022. Its cuts run 85 percent off as a rule. There have been 58 in the 12 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 69 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 99 percent. On the same math Toy Soldiers ($9.99, scores 64) and Yes, Your Grace ($3.99, scores 78) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
66 on Metacritic, 46 percent from players. A gap this way round is usually launch damage or a slow decline.
1.5 hours to finish it, 8 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 5.3 times the campaign.
The drop-off
10% start to 5% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
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Battleplan: American Civil War scores 0/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/285130/battleplan-american-civil-warThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 20, price as of Sep 24.
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