Men of Valor

Men of Valor

Skip · Shooter · 2016

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 20, under the fair line, at $9.99.

Length
9.7h 11.7h to 100%
Value
$1.03/hr
Reviews
67% of 762 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

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

Raising the score
Value$1.03/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Holding it back
Reviews67% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 68% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds5 of 439 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Vietnam, 1965. You are Dean Shepard, a "cherry" to the 'Nam with zero war experience other than standard boot camp training at Parris Island, SC. Along with your platoon, you will fight the NVA and the Vietcong in true historic locales and battles.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, DirectX compatible video card with 64 MB VRAM, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

Across all 72 discounts in the 11 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

It is less well reviewed than 77 percent of its genre. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Call of Duty® 2 ($19.99, scores 69) and Vietnam War ($14.99, scores 36) both outscore it.

More about Men of Valor

Of the 439 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 5 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 54 percent of the 177 reviews written there were positive, against 67 percent overall, and those are 26 percent of everything written about it.

What players say

I'm happy that someone bothered to make my childhood Murica propaganda game playable on PC in 2026. The game is super nostalgic for me. However that's about all it is - the game its self is super dated and not great. Also this version is quite jank. Had to delete the cutscene files as they crashed the game. The difficulty was terrible. The hard, medium, easy selectors do nothing. Enemies shoot through corners and...
HattyNot recommendedafter 7.6hJul 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I love Vietnam war era games and i would like to have more, but this is a terrible exp. You can beat it yeah but don't expect to have a fun time.
Spartan117Not recommendedafter 5.7hJun 2026Read on Steam
I thought this would be pretty bad based on the negative reviews. There are valid points, but a few thoughts A: There are no bugs and this game runs perfectly (not common for these old games) B: Great soundtrack voice acting, writing, and environmental design. C: I love having ADS and this game doesn't have it. I thought that would bother me a lot more than it did. You get used to it very quickly D: The gameplay is...
sem495Recommendedafter 3.6hJul 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

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

Cite this score

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Men of Valor scores 20/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/411330/men-of-valor
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Reviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players-4
Critics71
Players67
Metacritic critics · 762 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

Developer2015
PublisherTHQ Nordic
GenreShooter
Released2016
Players150Kowners, SteamSpy estimate