Sudden Strike 4
Fair · Strategy · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 30.3h
- Value
- $0.66/hr
- Reviews
- 78% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, AMD Radeon HD 7850, NVIDIA GeForce 660 series, 12 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Sudden Strike is back! The beloved Real Time Strategy series returns, this time with bigger battlefields, more units, better graphics, new scenarios and legendary commanders – making Sudden Strike 4 more tactical and realistic than ever before!
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $2.99, set in February 2026. 73 discounts in the 10 years on record. They run about 70 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 11 percent on value. It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 72 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Blitzkrieg 2 Anthology ($4.99, scores 59) beats it on value, while it beats Blitzkrieg 3 ($9.99, scores 2).
The press gave it 70; the people who bought it give it 78 percent. An 8-point gap in the buyer's favour.
This site sampled 734 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 9 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 53 percent of the 770 reviews written there were positive, against 78 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
71% start to <1% 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
Players
144 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Been in my library and had never gotten around to it. I play Steel Division, COH, GOH, MOW, WARNO, Broken Arrow etc. and never realized I had this gem. Very good, I actually prefer to it the new Sudden Strike 5, although Sudden Strike 5 is still good. This game takes a bit to get used to, but once things, "click" it is very fun.
It has numerous bugs. The number of missions you can't finish because the game is full of holes is ♥♥♥ astonishing. The Falaise Pocket mission is a perfect example. It literally won't end if there's even a single vehicle left behind, even if it's completely empty. Another example is the Fourth Battle of Kharkov. If you play the mission your own way and eliminate the enemies using your own strategy, you won't be able...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Sudden Strike 4 scores 55/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/373930/sudden-strike-4The 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 Sep 23, price as of Sep 24.
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