NAM
Skip · Shooter · 2014
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 27, under the fair line, at $1.39.
- Length
- 3.1h 6h to 100%
- Value
- $0.45/hr
- Reviews
- 70% of 302 positive
Full price
Today
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Buy now or wait
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
You are Alan 'The Bear' Westmoreland, Marine Corps sergeant. The trouble starts on a deadly Viet Cong raid. Here the jungle is your battleground. Your mission, survive.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 100% DirectX compatible graphics, 102 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 78 times in the 12 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $1.39 at 80 percent off still sits 43 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
It is cheaper than 68 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 73 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Wolfenstein 3D ($4.99, scores 87) beats it on value, while it beats WRATH: Aeon of Ruin ($24.99, scores 23).
More about NAM
Inside the two-hour refund window, 74 percent of the 132 reviews written there were positive, against 70 percent overall, and those are 62 percent of everything written about it.
What players say
A Build engine Vietnam War simulator designed to give you video game form of PTSD. You don't see the hit-scan enemies and have to resort to unloading your M60 in every direction, you constantly step on land mines and you get killed by friendly fire air bombings. You are in a world of s**t. After the game is completed you wonder why you were playing in the first place.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
It's okay... While I can appreciate what was attempted here, the build engine was never designed to incorporate a semi-realistic war setting... Some things just do not translate over well. While I did enjoy the gameplay to a degree its marred by cr*ppy hixboxes and annoying traps, but i guess it did pull off what it was trying to represent but not in the way you'd think. Its an interesting artifact of the time and...
Cons: - SO MANY random deaths due to mines that are the same color as the grass and also 1x1 pixel in size and enemies that you literally cannot see - Only reliable weapon is the M16, and maybe the M60, but the others are useless - No real level variety Pros: - Works good on Steam Deck w/ a controller - Short, sweet and to the point - Pixel art, yay!
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
NAM scores 27/100 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/329650/namReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.