Strange Brigade
Skip · Shooter · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $49.99.
- Length
- 8.2h
- Value
- $6.10/hr
- Reviews
- 84% positive
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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.
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!
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
October 2023 is where it bottomed out, at $2.50. Its cuts run 90 percent off as a rule. There have been 49 in the 8 years tracked, about 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 9 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 48 percent on value. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 69 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.
The press gave it 68; the people who bought it give it 84 percent. A 16-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data says about 2 percent of players ever finish it. On an 8.2-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 25 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 57 percent of the 1,397 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, 30 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.7 times the campaign.
The drop-off
80% start to 2% finishMost players never reach the end. On an 8.2-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
18 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
This game is a ton of fun! It's gameplay similar to Left for Dead in a setting as pretty as Uncharted. And it's all woven together with sardonic narration taken straight from old school movies. It's a ton of fun to play. I played it for hours on my own. It's super entertaining. But playing it with friends? That's next level fun. Even when you're hopelessly overwhelmed and dying left and right, you can't help but...
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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Strange Brigade scores 40/100 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/312670/strange-brigadeThe 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 Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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