Twilight Struggle
Skip · Strategy · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 49, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Length
- 1.3h
- Value
- $7.68/hr
- Reviews
- 86% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Twilight Struggle is a two-player game where players play as either the US or USSR during the Cold War. Using actual events from history, players must plan out their strategies in order to obtain world dominance. Play Twilight Struggle and change the course of history.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
- Steam lists in-app purchases but we have no detail on them. Small caution applied.
The value story
May 2023 is where it bottomed out, at $2.49. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 45 in the 10 years tracked, about 11 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 17 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 69 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 91 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Root ($14.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Radio Commander: Vietnam '64 ($19.99, scores 21).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 2 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 1.3-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 507 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 56 percent of the 216 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
76% start to 2% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 1.3-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
93 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 19:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I was just hoping that it was a string of bad luck, but the sheer number of times that the computer rolls success on dice rolls over and over and over makes it more likely that something screwy is going on. Programmed cheating to make a game more "challenging" just isn't fun.
DO NOT BUY IF YOU USE MAC I love the board game version of Twilight Struggle, but the Steam version is unbelievably buggy. I can make it through 60% of one game before the game no longer consistently registers my left mouse click. The game will also periodically crash. I have never had any problem like this with any other game, even ones that are more resource-demanding.
Good reproduction of the board game. Easy to understand. A little hard to learn.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Twilight Struggle scores 49/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/406290/twilight-struggleReviews 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 Sep 23, price as of Oct 1.
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