Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead
Fair · Shooter · 2010
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 80% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$19.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$3.9980% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.38/hr
- ReviewsS
- 92% of 22,251
- Critics
- 73 players 19 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 16% Shooter
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 8.4h
- To 100%
- 23.2h 2.8x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 108 on record
- Typical cut
- 80% off
- Steam low
- $2.99 June 2015
- Sale every
- 38d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 88 now
- Cheaper than
- 16% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 90% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 108 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 80 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Past sales have already crossed the $7.40 BANGER line 104 times.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 16 percent. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Arma 3 ($29.99, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats Arma: Cold War Assault Remastered ($9.99, scores 60).
More about Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead
73 from critics against 92 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
This site sampled 525 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 8 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 68 percent of the 1,554 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
8.4 hours to finish it, 23 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.8 times the campaign.
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
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Compared to Arma 3, perhaps the biggest downside of this game is that it does not have nearly as many mods, yet I still love it and regard it as my introduction to military-themed games.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Three years after the conflict in Chernarus, portrayed in the original Arma 2, a new flashpoint explodes in the Green Sea Region. Coalition forces led by the US Army are deployed to Takistan to quickly restore peace and prevent further civilian casualties.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/33930/arma-2-operation-arrowheadReviews 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 Nov 4, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.