Total Annihilation
BANGER · Strategy · 2015
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $4.99.
- Length
- 22.5h
- Value
- $0.22/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: SVGA, 399 MB of storage. Windows only.
What began as a conflict over the transfer of consciousness from flesh to machines escalated into a war which has decimated a million worlds. The Core and the Arm have all but exhausted the resources of a galaxy in their struggle for domination.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.74. That was February 2022. 36 discounts in the 11 years on record. They run about 60 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 99 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, STAR WARS™ Empire at War - Gold Pack ($19.99, scores 96) beats it on value, while it beats Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III ($39.99, scores 2).
$28.30 is where it would stop being a BANGER. Today it is $4.99.
86 from critics against 96 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
This site sampled 372 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 91 percent of the 668 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 19 percent of everything written about it.
22.5 hours to finish it, 55 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.5 times the campaign.
Players
90 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
one of the greatest games of all time, never gets boring, and its recreations do it amazing justice, beyond all reason is great and free
Simply a legendary, classic, Command & Conquer-style, old-school Real Time Strategy game. I have been playing this game since I was a youngin', having seen my bother's play it.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Total Annihilation scores 95/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/298030/total-annihilationThe 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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