Victory At Sea
Skip · Action · 2014
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $7.99.
- Length
- 10h
- Value
- $0.80/hr
- Reviews
- 75% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, GeForce 9500 GT, 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Engage in epic RTS warfare across 3 huge campaigns as well as other battle modes. Create your own fleet of ships, pick your side and enter into World War II naval combat on a global scale.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
April 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $1.99. 114 discounts in the 12 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 5 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 26 percent of the games it competes with. Among the games that feel like it, Cold Waters ($39.99, scores 45) beats it on value, while it beats Carrier Command: Gaea Mission ($32.99, scores 0).
The drop-off
48% start to 1% 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
Players
3 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
IF you are thinking about purchasing this for $5 on steam sale - do it. It's fun, arcade like approach to naval combat. Do not expect depth of realism. I have put about 700 hours into the game. It's worthwhile and a good play. Is it realistic, heck no. But where else can you take command of a Yamato class and devestate the Allied fleet?
older game but still fun. Break it out form time to time and play through agian.
One of my childhood games. It is very enjoyable to play in shorter sessions, especially if you play something more historically inclined. The only issue I've had with the game is that saves sometimes get corrupted, deleting older saves seems to help, as the game seemingly has a limited amount of saves before they get corrupted. P.S. I suggest waiting for a sale. I bought this game for roughly 7 euros during summer...
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: critic score (Metacritic).
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Victory At Sea scores 41/100 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/298480/victory-at-seaThe 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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