Total Annihilation
BANGER · Strategy · 2015
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $4.99.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.22/hr
- ReviewsS
- 96% of 3,791
- Critics
- 86 players 10 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Strategy
Watch this gameOne alert when it goes on sale.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 22.5h
- To 100%
- 55.3h 2.5x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 36 on record
- Typical cut
- 60% off
- Steam low
- $0.74 February 2022
- Sale every
- 51d last February 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 130 now
- Cheaper than
- 59% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
36 discounts in the 11 years on record, a median of 60 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 36 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 1 percent. 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).
$28.27 is where it would stop being a BANGER.
More about Total Annihilation
86 from critics against 96 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
This site sampled 373 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to November 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 91 percent of the 669 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 18 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.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 255 days ago.
- 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
This is the first RTS game I ever played, and to this day it remains the best. It's simple enough - everything just costs metal and energy to make. You need to make buildings that make metal and energy you can then use to make sassy units to go act a fool at the enemy. Woot! The only sad parts are the multiplayer function is dead. This would be so fun if you could team up with others to take on the PC. And in this...
2 more reviews
Still a great game after all these years I loose so many free hours on this game just because of the fun I am having
A great RTS. Kind of a nice breath of fresh air after playing Starcraft for awhile. There's lots of different types of bots you can make, vehicles, humanoid k-bots, water units, aerial units, and each has different tiers and their own builders. Generally I would recommend buying this on GOG instead if possible just because you can put it on your old as shit computers as well that can't run Steam, but this version...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: SVGA, 399 MB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Total Annihilation scores 95/100 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/298030/total-annihilationReviews 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 Oct 17, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.