STAR WARS™ Empire at War - Gold Pack
BANGER · Strategy · 2010
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
A BANGER today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 50% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$19.99BANGER
Typical seasonal cut
$6.9965% offBANGER
- Cost per hourS
- $0.85/hr
- ReviewsS
- 98% of 43,395
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Strategy
Watch this gameOne alert at $6.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 23.5h
- To 100%
- 54.5h 2.3x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 63 on record
- Typical cut
- 65% off
- Steam low
- $4.99 May 2016
- Sale every
- 59d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 1,553 now
- Recent reviews
- 96% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 7% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 63 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 65 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and the best reviewed. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Homeworld Remastered Collection ($34.99, scores 65) and Nexus - The Jupiter Incident ($9.99, scores 53).
The math says it holds its tier up to $35.20, and you are being asked for $19.99.
More about STAR WARS™ Empire at War - Gold Pack
This site sampled 749 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 6 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,604 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,263 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 81 percent of the 925 reviews written there were positive, against 98 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 23.5 hours. Doing everything runs 55, 2.3 times as long.
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
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What players say
Base game is probably good, all my hours are in mods though. Thrawns Revenge and Fall of the Republic are crazy good.
1 more review
This game has always been my favorite strategy game since childhood. Its probably the only good Star Wars strategy game and its basically 2 games in 1. Not only that, the mods this game has can be considered their very own game aswell like Thrawn's Revenge, Republic at war, etc. The storyline seems to be enjoyable with each faction having their own mechanics and unique units to control. Soundtrack is pretty good...
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About the game
Command or corrupt an entire galaxy in the definitive Star Wars strategy collection. It is a time of galactic civil war. Will you take up the reins of the Rebellion, assume control of the Empire, or rule the Star Wars Underworld?
Minimum specs
Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
STAR WARS™ Empire at War - Gold Pack scores 96/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/32470/star-wars-empire-at-war-gold-packReviews 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 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.