EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair
BANGER · Shooter · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $8.99.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.40/hr
- ReviewsS
- 95% of 10,590
- Critics
- 79 players 16 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Shooter
Watch this gameAlready a BANGER on sale. Pick a lower price.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 22.7h
- To 100%
- 263.7h 11.6x the story
- Achievements
- 51
Price and sales
- Sales
- 74 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $7.99 November 2022
- Sale every
- 46d last November 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 130 now
- Cheaper than
- 16% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 96% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
51% start to <1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $7.99. That was November 2022. 74 discounts in the 10 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 1 percent. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including STAR WARS™ Battlefront ($19.99, scores 56) and Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon ($6.99, scores 69).
More about EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair
79 from critics against 95 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
This site sampled 448 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 75 percent of the 488 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 22.7 hours. Doing everything runs 264, 12 times as long.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
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
it's pretty fun. firing a plasma launcher into a big group of giant ants does something to my brain that i don't think any other game can.
2 more reviews
HIGHLY RECOMMEND!! If you dont have a PC that can run Helldivers, or Arent a fan of Arrowhead. This is The closest thing. I played it for about 60 hours and i loved every moment, I had most fun with air raider and it has serious potential to play chaotically with friends or solo.
Just a fun action game... Don't try to understand or follow the plot, because you will become lost and it only makes threadbare sense. Instead focus on Killing bugs and mechs and even godzilla lol. Many upgrades to gather, many new weapons and playstyles. The Action is top notch and the game is a blast. Even in 2026. You could probably run this game on a toaster.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
It's a fight for the future of the planet between the Ravagers, a merciless swarm of alien invaders, and the Earth Defense Force (EDF) in this third-person shooter.Play as four different classes in over 80 missions with a range of 800 weapons at your disposal.Co-op play supported.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, AMD Radeon HD 7870 / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 （2GB Model or higher）, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair scores 94/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/410320/earth-defense-force-4-1-the-shadow-of-new-despairReviews 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 6, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.