AI War: Fleet Command
Fair · Strategy · 2009
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 24.6h
- Value
- $0.41/hr
- Reviews
- 82% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 297 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
"You are outgunned. You are massively outnumbered. You must win." These are your orders. Humanity has already fought its war against the machines -- and lost. AI death squads stand watch over every planet and every wormhole, the few remaining human settlements are held captive in orbiting bubbles, and the AIs have turned their...
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $0.99, set in October 2016. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 109 in the 14 years tracked, about 5 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 5 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 6 percent on value. It is pricier than 70 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 82 percent. Among the games that feel like it, STAR WARS™ Empire at War - Gold Pack ($19.99, scores 96) beats it on value, while it beats Dune: Spice Wars ($13.99, scores 57).
Steam's global achievement data says about 6 percent of players ever finish it. On a 24.6-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. Inside the two-hour refund window, 48 percent of the 149 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
19% start to 6% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 24.6-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
4 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
AI War is like no other strategy game. In an RTS or 4X, you basically always fight opponents which are of about equal strength to you. In AI War, you fight a massively strong opponent. This opponent already owns basically the entire galaxy. But the AI does not perceive you as a strong threat, which is why it doesn't just attack you with everything. Apparently it is fighting something in a different universe, after...
AI War: Fleet Command is a far more superior product then Ai War 2. Get this one instead.
how to say this... the point of the game is to defeat the galactic level AI that demolished 3/4 of the univers using whats left. So you're suppose to splinter cell it out, without being caught and kill the MF.... but how do you intend to slip by a GOD level AI WITH 2000 SHIPS FFS !!!
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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AI War: Fleet Command scores 62/100 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/40400/ai-war-fleet-commandThe 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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