Order of Battle: World War II

Order of Battle: World War II

Skip · Strategy · 2015

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

The reviews do not carry it. What it costs you is time.

Length
56.8h
Price
Free to play
Reviews
78% positive
Length
56.8h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
Free
price ÷ main-story length
Price
Free
Reviews
78%
3,175 reviews, as of Sep 21
Metacritic
81
critic score
Players
350K
owners (estimate)
Released
2015

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 512 Mb DirectX 11 video card with shader model 2.0, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.

Order of Battle: World War II is a breath of fresh air for all strategy fans. It is a game that takes wargaming to a new level by upgrading every single game element and rebooting the genre for a new generation of players.
Description from the Steam store page.

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How to read this

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Raising the score
ValueFree
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Holding it back
Reviews78% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach350K+ players
How many own it, a popularity + confidence signal
DRMSlitherine PBEM++ for account needed
Needs a second account on top of Steam, a small friction discount
For context
Length57 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
RefundsFree
A free game cannot be refunded, so the label never applies

The value story

Value puts it in the top 17 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 73 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Battle for Wesnoth (free, scores 86) beats it on value, while it beats Operation: Harsh Doorstop (free, scores 48).

It is still busy. 167 players were in it at once at the last check, across 81 days of tracking.

The drop-off

59% start to 2% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

167 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

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Luna 🌙✨Recommendedafter 24hJul 2026Read on Steam
Taiwan no 1, or I should say ROC? It's a WWII battle chess game, for more detail this game are each campaign, all players got a starter troops and some maps would spawn more troops as reinforcement, his game are like Civilization but chop the maps into small conflict, it's need more deeper thought if develop want players replay this game, and personal can't found the tutorial in-game. This game difficult are large...
TexyalenRecommendedafter 1.1hJul 2026Read on Steam
STEAM REVIEW: „World War Wet Dreams 2" - A Broken Spreadsheet Disguised as History Verdict: This game has absolutely nothing to do with real World War II tactics, history, or basic logic. It is a dry, mathematical Excel spreadsheet hidden behind WWII asset skins, where artificial rules completely insult the player's intelligence. Here are the 6 reasons why this game is a massive, misleading scam for anyone looking...
Unit Seven ©Not recommendedafter 7.0hJul 2026Read on Steam

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.

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Order of Battle: World War II scores 49/100 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/312450/order-of-battle-world-war-ii
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The 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 21.

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Critics vs players-3
Critics
81
Players
78
Critics and players agree on this one.
Metacritic critics · 3,175 Steam player reviews

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Details

DeveloperThe Artistocrats
PublisherSlitherine Ltd.
GenreStrategy
Released2015
Achievements38