Day of Defeat: Source

Day of Defeat: Source

Worth it · Multiplayer · 2010

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 80% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$9.99Worth it

Typical seasonal cut

$1.9980% off

Cost per hour
$1.15/hr
ReviewsS
92% of 23,722
Critics
80 players 12 higher
Genre rank
Top 1% Multiplayer
Why
No price makes it a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $1.99 or less.

Time and effort

Typical playtime
8.7h
To 100%
15.4h 1.8x the story
Achievements
54

Price and sales

Sales
49 on record
Typical cut
80% off
Steam low
$0.99 November 2017
Sale every
98d last October 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $0.99 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
191 now
Recent reviews
94% 30 days
Cheaper than
34% of its genre
Better reviewed
97% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

24% start to 3% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

A game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

Across all 49 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 80 percent, about 14 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Against its own genre its score lands in the top 1 percent. It is pricier than 66 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 ($4.99, scores 64) and Day of Defeat ($4.99, scores 81).

More about Day of Defeat: Source

Critics scored it 80. Players sit 12 points higher at 92 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.

This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 15 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2021 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 3,192 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 20 percent of everything written about it.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $1.99 (80% off). Predictions like this were right 92% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.

Last discount ended 31 days ago.

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

Raising the score
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach3.5M+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
For context
Refunds15 of 800 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

What players say

-RUSHING PRIVATE RYAN- We set out in the morning, warily checking windows, corners, anywhere the Germans could spring a trap or an ambush. Johannson was in the lead, Garand at the ready and bayonet fixed improperly. Rook was shadowing him, double checking each spot that Johannson had checked before. I was in the middle with Peters, helping him carry the M2 Browning. And Stewart was in the rear, covering our backs...
⭕⃤ ⠀OlwteletRecommendedafter 44h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews
can be pretty fun, some would say it feels more authentic then call of duty world war 2 games
TheHarbingerRecommendedafter 1.5h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
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Iron DaggerRecommendedafter 2.7h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam

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

About the game

Valve's WWII Multiplayer Classic - Now available for Mac.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Runs on Windows, Linux.

Cite this score

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Day of Defeat: Source scores 82/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/300/day-of-defeat-source
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 4, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+12
Critics80
Players92
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 23,722 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperValve
PublisherValve
GenreMultiplayer
Released2010
Players3.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements54