Hearts of Iron IV
Worth it · Strategy · 2016
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
$49.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$14.9970% offWorth it
- Cost per hourS
- $0.97/hr
- ReviewsA
- 90% of 363,322
- Critics
- 83 players 7 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 2% Strategy
Holding it back: Recent reviews
Why
Recent reviews trending down: 65% over the last 30 days against 90% all-time.
Watch this gameOne alert at $14.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 51.8h
- To 100%
- 1158.4h 22.4x the story
- Finish
- <1% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 293
Price and sales
- Sales
- 82 on record
- Typical cut
- 70% off
- Steam low
- $9.99 May 2020
- Sale every
- 39d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 35,576 now
- Recent reviews
- 65% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 1% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 95% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
20% start to <1% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 82 times in the 10 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 70 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 2 percent. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Victoria II ($19.99, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats Hearts of Iron III ($9.99, scores 31).
More about Hearts of Iron IV
Steam's global achievement data puts under 1 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 51.8-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Players rate it 90 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 65 percent. Something recent has soured the room. 12 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 69 percent of the 5,009 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 2 percent of everything written about it.
51.8 hours to finish it, 1158 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 22 times the campaign.
The rating rests on 363,322 reviews, so it is not going to move much from here.
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
I am deeply disappointed by the offensive and groundless accusations made by Paradox Interactive moderators regarding Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founding father of the Republic of Turkey. Labeling a globally respected historic leader with defamatory terms is completely unacceptable and disrespectful to millions of players. As long as Paradox Interactive fails to take strict official action against those responsible...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
When i bought this game it's an mild strategy game i love to play but it got progressively worse after "No One Step Back" dlc. Its just simulation slop, UI madness and worst of all content is vague. This game is just an overpriced garbage, I wouldn't bought it at this time with that price. We really shouldn't feed Corporates like this. Even making an tank origami with your money rather than buting this game will...
I don't know why all the marketing material for this game is stuff from WW2? The game is actually set in an alternative version of Equestria from My Little Pony, and/or the post Apocalyptic wasteland of Fallout.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Victory is at your fingertips! Your ability to lead your nation is your supreme weapon, the strategy game Hearts of Iron IV lets you take command of any nation in World War II; the most engaging conflict in world history.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Hearts of Iron IV scores 79/100 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/394360/hearts-of-iron-ivReviews 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.