SpellForce - Platinum Edition

SpellForce - Platinum Edition

Fair · RPG · 2009

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.

Reviews
88% positive
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Price
$9.99
as of Sep 24
Reviews
88%
2,917 reviews, as of Sep 4
Metacritic
74
critic score
Players
350K
owners (estimate)
Released
2009
Length + $/hr
No data
no length in our data yet

Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 3D graphics card with 128 MB Ram (GeForce 4Ti or higher) (256 MB Recommended), 4 GB of storage. Windows only.

Included in the Platinum Edition are three titles:SpellForce: The Order of DawnIn a world beyond imagination...In their immeasurable greed and constant thirst for power, the thirteen most powerful Mages of all time doomed the land, hurling it into an endless spiral of chaos and despair.
Description from the Steam store page.

What drives the score

How to read this

Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.

What we assumed
  • How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical RPG game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
Raising the score
MonetizationNone
No in-game purchases. Paid DLC exists and is not docked
Holding it back
Value~$1.25/hr
Estimated: no length in our data yet
Reviews88% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Length unknownNo verified $/hr
No length in our data yet, so the biggest driver can't be verified. A heavy dock until it is
For context
Reach350K+ players
How many own it, a popularity + confidence signal
Refunds0 of 454 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked

The value story

The lowest price on record is $0.99, set in September 2020. It has been discounted 87 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 14 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.

Value puts it in the top 9 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 61 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 91 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Overlord™: Raising Hell ($9.99, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats SpellForce 2 - Anniversary Edition ($14.99, scores 45).

Critics scored it 74. Players sit 14 points higher at 88 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.

Of the 454 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 65 percent of the 198 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.

Players

118 players at peak in the last day.

The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.

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

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SpellForce - Platinum Edition scores 59/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). Length is estimated at 8 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/39540/spellforce-platinum-edition
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The 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 4, price as of Sep 24.

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Critics vs players+14
Critics
74
Players
88
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 2,917 Steam player reviews

Tags

Details

DeveloperPhenomic
PublisherTHQ Nordic
GenreRPG
Released2009