Men of War: Red Tide
Fair · Strategy · 2009
The verdict
BUY IT.
Fair at $0.74, at or past its typical seasonal cut of 85%. The Autumn Sale runs to Oct 8.
- Length
- 27h
- Value
- $0.03/hr
- Reviews
- 85% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 85% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 85% ($0.74)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 6200 or ATI Radeon 9600 (128 MB RAM), 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
Red Tide blends deep RTS tactics with the raw intensity of third-person combat. Created in collaboration with author Alexander Zorich, this standalone expansion tells the story of the Black Coats – Soviet Naval Infantry famed for their ruthless precision in the Black Sea campaigns.
What drives the score
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The value story
November 2019 is where it bottomed out, at $0.49. Its cuts run 80 percent off as a rule. There have been 82 in the 14 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart. Today's $0.74 at 85 percent off still sits 51 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Value puts it in the top 10 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 87 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Blitzkrieg 2 Anthology ($4.99, scores 59) beats it on value, while it beats Sudden Strike 4 ($3.99, scores 55).
77 from critics against 85 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
3 of the 362 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 68 percent of the 130 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 17 percent of everything written about it.
What players say
LMAO Directly from the pen of Mikhail Andreyevich Suslov, the head of the Department of Agitation and Propaganda of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU).
Learn your lesson from beating the original game. Campaign just ain't it for the MOW series, the A.I has always been terrible and is considerably worse in this one. DONT WASTE YOUR TIME!
Men of War: Red Tide is one of the most underrated entries in the franchise. While it doesn't introduce revolutionary gameplay changes, it delivers one of the richest and most rewarding single-player campaigns in the entire series. Rather than revisiting the usual World War II battles, the game follows the legendary Soviet Naval Infantry-the Black Coats-through more than twenty missions spanning the Black Sea...
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
Men of War: Red Tide scores 57/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The developer disclosed AI-generated content on Steam, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3130/men-of-war-red-tideReviews 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 2.
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