Executive Assault
Skip · Shooter · 2015
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $12.99.
- Reviews
- 85% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Pixel shader 3.0, Nvidia or Radeon Cards, 1024x768 resolution, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
Executive Assault is an indie real-time strategy/first-person shooter where you can not only build your base and create armies, but also take control of your units and fight as one of them.
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.
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Shooter game (about 6 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $3.24. That was December 2024. 25 discounts in the 12 years on record. They run about 70 percent off, roughly 15 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 15 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 41 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 70 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Nuclear Dawn ($9.99, scores 50) beats it on value, while it beats Outpost: Infinity Siege ($12.49, scores 13).
Inside the two-hour refund window, 61 percent of the 224 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Executive Assault scores 46/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). Length is estimated at 6 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/331500/executive-assaultThe 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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