A Year Of Rain
Skip · Multiplayer · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 0, under the fair line, at $1.49.
- Length
- 10.1h 13.7h to 100%
- Value
- $0.15/hr
- Reviews
- 44% of 692 positive
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Buy now or wait
It is 90% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
A desolate realm, kept in flux by the rhythm of battle. A proving ground for those with great ambition. A Year Of Rain is the ultimate team real-time strategy game. Choose your faction, team up and take control of a legendary hero to lead your armies!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 960 2GB, 14 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
63 discounts in the 7 years on record, a median of 90 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today's $1.49 at 90 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
It is pricier than 79 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 98 percent. On the same math Element TD 2 - Tower Defense ($14.99, scores 56) and Circle Empires Rivals ($15.99, scores 71) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about A Year Of Rain
Of the 277 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 4 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 37 percent of the 233 reviews written there were positive, against 44 percent overall, and those are 47 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
52% start to 5% finishA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
I uh, I don't actually know why I originally bought this. But uh wow, its terrible. Its not even the fact it was abandoned and there's like 3 missions, it just plays terrible for an RTS. Save your money.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
This had some genuinely interesting RTS ideas, especially with the co-op focus, but the game clearly launched before it was ready. Bugs, balance issues, and matchmaking problems made it hard to stick with, and the abandonment afterwards pretty much sealed its fate. There's a glimpse of a great strategy game buried in here somewhere, which honestly makes it more disappointing. Feels like wasted potential.
I would recommend this game if you can grab it for $5 as I did, it was a nice time sink and its pretty fun as is. A couple things I would note before buying; Pros: Love the approach on the art style. Good Soundtrack Good Campaign Story, what's there of it. Likeable "Hero Characters" Fun Gameplay, enough for me to finish the Campaign on Hard. Charming in a rough around the edges and cracked through the center kind of...
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No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
A Year Of Rain scores 0/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/319540/a-year-of-rainReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.