Battlezone 98 Redux
Worth it · Shooter · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99.
- Length
- 14.1h
- Value
- $1.42/hr
- Reviews
- 91% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
One of the greatest sci-fi strategy games of all time returns with remastered visuals, online multiplayer and near unlimited mod content from Steam Workshop. Experience thrilling first person action and acclaimed RTS in this explosive alternate vision of the 1960s space race.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.99, set in November 2024. 55 discounts in the 10 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 9 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 14 percent on value. It is pricier than 75 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 82 percent. Among the games that feel like it, STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™ ($9.99, scores 87) beats it on value, while it beats Executive Assault ($12.99, scores 46).
Critics scored it 75. Players sit 16 points higher at 91 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
This site sampled 336 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 79 percent of the 184 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
45% 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
15 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 15:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Playing this game and seeing the opening video as a child is why I have "I'm gonna thump 'em" as a vocal tick.
The first PC game I ever played - over 20 years later - the game not only holds up - Its Pure class
great, if only some controls were tweaked this could be a scartcraft but with the player in the field
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Battlezone 98 Redux scores 71/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/301650/battlezone-98-reduxReviews 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 Sep 27, price as of Oct 1.
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