Strange Brigade

Strange Brigade

Skip · Shooter · 2018

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Under the fair line today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 90% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$49.99Skip

Typical seasonal cut

$4.9990% offFair

Cost per hour▼
$6.10/hr
Reviews▼
84% of 11,378
Critics
68 players 16 higher
Genre rank
Top 53% Shooter

Holding it back: Cost per hour, DRM

Why
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.99 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
8.2h
To 100%
29.4h 3.6x the story
Achievements
60

Price and sales

Sales
50 on record
Typical cut
90% off
Steam low
$2.50 October 2023
Sale every
51d last October 2026
Lowest now $3.99 at Fanaticalall-time low $1.88 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
14 now
Cheaper than
2% of its genre
Better reviewed
66% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

80% start to 2% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

October 2023 is where it bottomed out, at $2.50. Across all 50 discounts in the 9 years tracked, the median cut is 90 percent, about 7 weeks apart.

It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 66 percent. Zombie Army 4: Dead War ($49.99, scores 65) outscores it, and so does Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army ($14.99, scores 60). Both sit among its closest neighbours.

More about Strange Brigade

The press gave it 68; the people who bought it give it 84 percent. A 16-point gap in the buyer's favour.

Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 26 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2023 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 57 percent of the 1,399 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 17 percent of everything written about it.

8.2 hours to finish it, 29 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.6 times the campaign.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

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
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Cost per hour$6.10/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
DRMDenuvo
Denuvo copy protection, a small friction discount
For context
Refunds26 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

Make Strange Brigade 2! I have zero complaints about the first part. Very fun game to play with friends.
Shade_of_KinGRecommendedafter 29h13 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews
This game is a hidden gem, a work of art, and a product of love. It should've gone viral and mass thousands of players! Do yourself a favor, play this with friends!!
KvelendRecommendedafter 48hSep 2026Read on Steam
Kinda Zombie Army reskin, but with mummies instead of nazi zombies. Fun for few evenings and just like Zombie Army games, it's an alright game to get during the sale.
🎃SWITCHBLADE🧛Recommendedafter 27hSep 2026Read on Steam

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

About the game

Embark on an exotic journey into danger in this rip-roaring 1930s third person adventure for 1-4 players! Encounter pulse-pounding action, treacherous traps and tales of derring-do!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, AMD Radeon HD 7870 (2GB) or NVIDIA GeForce 750 Ti (2GB), 35 GB of storage. Windows only.

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Strange Brigade scores 39/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/312670/strange-brigade
Embed the live badge

Reviews 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 Oct 31, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+16
Critics68
Players84
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 11,378 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperRebellion
PublisherRebellion
GenreShooter
Released2018
Players750Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements60