Foreign Legion: Buckets of Blood
Skip · Shooter · 2009
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 13, under the fair line, at $3.99.
- Length
- 1.9h 8h to 100%
- Value
- $2.10/hr
- Reviews
- 63% of 319 positive
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Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 1306 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Foreign Legion: Buckets of Blood is a cartoon-style third-person shooter. You take the role of a last-standing hard-boiled Legionnaire taking on an entire rebel army. A small campaign with various objectives, such as defending civilians, escorting a tourist bus and a mass-chicken-murder map.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, DirectX 9 video card and 64 MB VRAM, 154 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
Across all 34 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 187 weeks ago.
It is cheaper than 84 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 83 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Hellbound: Survival Mode (free, scores 69) beats it on value, while it beats War Trigger 3 (free, scores 5).
More about Foreign Legion: Buckets of Blood
Inside the two-hour refund window, 53 percent of the 124 reviews written there were positive, against 63 percent overall, and those are 52 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 1.9 hours. Doing everything runs 8, 4.2 times as long.
The drop-off
52% start to 4% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
This was the greatest suprise of my gaming life, I loved it. I bought it cause of guns, disregarding faceless lego men. Its super low spec, and cell shaded simplified, so it runs great. You do have to deal with being part of France's empire, but its a lot of fun imperializing.
1 more review, not recommended
it was like 12 cents when i bought it, it is definitely one of the third person shooter games.
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Cite this score
Foreign Legion: Buckets of Blood scores 13/100 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/36000/foreign-legion-buckets-of-bloodReviews 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.