Age of Steel: Recharge
Skip · Action · 2016
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 23, under the fair line, at $6.99.
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.06/hr
- Reviews▼
- 69% of 259
- Genre rank
- Top 66% Action
Holding it back: Reviews, Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 3.4h
- To 100%
- 6.2h 1.8x the story
- Achievements
- 20
Price and sales
- Sales
- 10 on record
- Typical cut
- 70% off
- Steam low
- $1.04 February 2018
- Sale every
- 56d last February 2018
Players and genre
- Online
- 0 now
- Cheaper than
- 43% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 26% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
8% start to 3% 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
Across all 10 discounts in the 11 years tracked, the median cut is 70 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 455 weeks ago.
It is less well reviewed than 74 percent of its genre. The Culling Of The Cows ($4.99, scores 36) outscores it, and so does Bardbarian ($7.99, scores 67). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 3184 days ago.
- 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
You could see this game as a lane based tower defense game, but with each lane having it's own distinct unit types, or as a rock-paper-scissors tug of war game, where each time you see the enemy sending more units at you, you have to see if your current forces will handily beat it, or if not start building a counter to the enemy unit(s) now coming at you. Do it badly/slowly and they start beating up your base, do it...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
The game is very simple, the campaign is passed in 1 hour, 100% of achievements can be obtained in another 3 hours, the last hour you just look at the screen, making a couple of clicks every 5 minutes. In essence, it's an autobattler with upgrades. It's probably more interesting on higher difficulty, but on the easiest difficulty in survival mode it just seems endless. The game for one evening, played and forgotten...
This game is similar to tower defence games. The resource mining is automatic and you can use resources to buy defence units (turrets, tanks, planes) or to upgrade the units. Or you can upgrade the base to get different units and more upgrades. This game plays on three floors, the ground (turrets and tanks and shield), the middle air (airships) and the top air (planes) and every floor has its own units. Generally...
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About the game
"Age of Steel: Recharge" is a 2D strategy with a view from the side. You're taking the role of commander, who was entrusted the management of the military base. Your mission is to defend a base from the waves of enemies at any price.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVIDIA GT/s 4xx or Equivalent, 236 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Age of Steel: Recharge scores 23/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/421060/age-of-steel-rechargeReviews 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 Oct 20, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.