Battle Brothers
Worth it · RPG · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 70% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$29.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$8.9970% offWorth it
- Cost per hourS
- $0.93/hr
- Reviews▼
- 88% of 29,197
- Critics
- 80 players 8 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 5% RPG
Holding it back: Monetization, Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $8.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 32.3h
- To 100%
- 99.8h 3.1x the story
- Achievements
- 101
Price and sales
- Sales
- 83 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $8.99 March 2025
- Sale every
- 42d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 991 now
- Recent reviews
- 82% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 5% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 91% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
85% start to 3% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 83 times in the 12 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 5 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 91 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord ($49.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats Sons of Valhalla ($19.99, scores 16).
More about Battle Brothers
The press gave it 80; the people who bought it give it 88 percent. An 8-point gap in the buyer's favour.
This site sampled 799 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 11 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written September 2025 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 49 percent of the 768 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (cosmetic); the score docks it lightly for that.
32.3 hours to finish it, 100 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.1 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 16 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
An already good game made probably +50% as good by bothering to google "Battle Brothers Legends".
2 more reviews
First time I write a review for a game, but for Battle Brothers, I had to. This is probably the best game I've played in my life. I've played it more than 1000hrs already, and I'll definitely play more. The learning curve is incredible: it probably took me 100hrs just to get over the basics and start to understand the game (!). For some people, or if the game doesn't 'catch' you (for me it did, this dark fantasy...
By far the best turn-based RPG game I've played in the last 10 years. On the surface, it's a brutal mercenary strategy RPG with incredibly deep turn-based combat. Your positioning, terrain, fatigue, morale, armor, equipment, initiative, injuries, enemy composition, and countless other factors all matter. The game doesn't hold your hand, and mistakes can be genuinely costly, so when a battle goes your way, you feel...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Lead a mercenary company in this tactical RPG set in a medieval fantasy world. Chase fame and fortune as you choose where to go, who to recruit, which contracts to pursue, and how to train and equip your men in a procedurally generated open world campaign.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
Battle Brothers scores 71/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/365360/battle-brothersReviews 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 6, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.