Ultimate General: Gettysburg
Skip · Strategy · 2014
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 44, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 6.4h
- Value
- $3.12/hr
- Reviews
- 80% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
A Tactical Battle Simulator that allows you to command thousands of soldiers as a Union or Confederate General. The game features the most accurately created map, a non-linear battle campaign, complex morale, innovative control mechanics and smart AI.
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
June 2018 is where it bottomed out, at $1.49. It has been discounted 51 times in the 12 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 10 weeks between sales.
Value puts it in the top 24 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 78 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Ultimate General: Civil War ($29.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats Steel Division 2 ($39.99, scores 41).
This site sampled 363 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 3 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 62 percent of the 385 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 6.4 hours. Doing everything runs 24, 3.8 times as long.
Players
5 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 11:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Visually (outside of UI) the game looks great, and I appreciated the dynamic mission structure, but the experience is not good outside of that. RTS fundamentals around movement, unit selection, and execution of actions is extraordinarily poor, making this hard to recommend. Mechanically, there seem to be flaws around charging, attacking lone artillery units with an entire brigade, and defending a height from...
I've played the hell out of this game, (especially on mobile but that's technically a completely different game) but its so frustrating how many bugs are in the game that I'd imagine are easy fixes. Charging doesn't work, when the two units collide condition drops as its supposed to and maybe 1 guy per second dies but that's it. Completely useless and an especially big problem for the Confederacy that relies on it...
I sort of hope that Stillfront Group that bought Game-Labs in 2021 have horrendously bad karma coming their way.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Ultimate General: Gettysburg scores 44/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/306660/ultimate-general-gettysburgReviews 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 20, price as of Oct 1.
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