Order of War™

Order of War™

Skip · Strategy · 2009

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 30, under the fair line, at $1.19.

Length
19.2h 106.7h to 100%
Value
$0.06/hr
Reviews
71% of 683 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

It is 85% 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

Raising the score
Value$0.06/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set That is today's sale price. Normally $0.42/hr
Holding it back
Reviews71% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 211 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

October 22, 2009 - Update has released free Downloadable Content for Order of War. The DLC will download automatically the next time you launch the game. This DLC contains all the formerly exclusive pre-order items which include: Heavy Bomber Squadrons - Addition of German Arado and Allied B-24 Marauder heavy bomber units to air support...
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 256MB NVIDIA GeForce 7600/Radeon HD2400, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

86 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 85 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today's $1.19 at 85 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.

Value puts it in the top 47 percent of the games it competes with. It is less well reviewed than 63 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, War Mongrels ($9.89, scores 41) beats it on value, while it beats War on the Sea ($39.99, scores 27).

More about Order of War™

None of the 211 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 48 percent of the 147 reviews written there were positive, against 71 percent overall, and those are 33 percent of everything written about it.

19.2 hours to finish it, 107 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 5.6 times the campaign.

Players

Players online
3 when we last checked, on Sep 27, 07:54 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

I really like this game; it's excellent, but I hope it gets further development, and, this game suffers greatly from a memory leak bug, which results in the game crashing after every mission or even during long missions (especially when interrupted by video clips), Hopefully, it will be improved to the best.
1aRecommendedafter 4.1h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
The game was simple, wait for resource spawn unit hold the point and fight off enemy. The only problem was that borderless mode are very buggy and you can't open other tabs in fullscreen mode. Overall it's good.
JadenfallsRecommendedafter 3.3hJan 2026Read on Steam
The game was crashing in the first mission. Seems like a cool game but unless you want to jump through hoops to play i wouldn't bother. At least it was only a buck and some change. guess its back to Total War.
CalvictusNot recommendedafter 1.1hMay 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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Order of War™ scores 30/100 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/34600/order-of-war
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Reviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+2
Critics69
Players71
Metacritic critics · 683 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperWargaming.net
PublisherSquare Enix
GenreStrategy
Released2009
Players150Kowners, SteamSpy estimate