Nation Red
Worth it · Action · 2009
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $2.99.
- Length
- 2.1h
- Value
- $1.42/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, Graphics with shader model 2.0 or better, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Nation Red is an ultra fast infinite play arena-based shooter providing an exceptional close-quarter battlefield experience. Fight thousands of zombie mutants and their bosses in frantic bloody gameplay while earning close to 100 perks. Fight in Barricade, Survival or Free Play mode.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $0.49, set in November 2020. Its cuts run 66 percent off as a rule. There have been 89 in the 14 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was this month, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is cheaper than 75 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. The nearest things to it, How to Survive ($3.74, scores 66) and Zombie Shooter ($4.99, scores 57), are both worse buys on this math.
This site sampled 296 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 74 percent of the 528 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 24 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 2.1 hours; clearing it takes 28, which is 13 times the campaign.
The drop-off
48% 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
3 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
Honestly really enjoyed this one. Constant action, running and gunning , trying to survive. Plus it's very cheap too. Get yourself a buddy and enjoy playing this together.
A fun old game that was ahead of it's time. This was the first game that I can recall that had leveling up with perk selection in an arena shooter. This type of game, albeit more advanced, is popular in 2025 i.e. Megabonk.
This game is intense and exciting! The fast-paced action and challenging waves of enemies keep me on edge. The pixel art style adds a retro touch, making it even more fun. Perfect for fans of top-down shooters! 💥🔫🔥
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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Nation Red scores 77/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/39800/nation-redThe 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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