Front Mission Evolved
Skip · Shooter · 2010
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $4.99.
- Length
- 7.4h
- Value
- $0.67/hr
- Reviews
- 62% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 512MB NVIDIA GeForce 7800 series graphics card or equivalent, 11 GB of storage. Windows only.
Experience piloting and customizing massive armored units called Wanzers while engaging in high-intensity battles driven by a compelling story. The battle begins now!
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
June 2014 is where it bottomed out, at $2.49. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 58 in the 14 years tracked, about 11 weeks apart. Today's $4.99 at 50 percent off still sits 100 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
It is less well reviewed than 84 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Vanquish ($19.99, scores 58) beats it on value, while it beats LOST PLANET® 3 ($24.99, scores 8).
Steam's global achievement data puts 25 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. Of the 285 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, 41 percent of the 112 reviews written there were positive, against 62 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 7.4 hours. Doing everything runs 19, 2.5 times as long.
The drop-off
88% start to 25% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
1 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
A GREAT ENDING TO THE FRONT MISSION FRANCHISE (Edit for second part of the review at the end.) --- PART 1 : I'm only a few missions in (somewhere in antartica), but already I'm in love with Front Mission all over again. Story seems simple enough, but there is that mix of gritty and sentimentality that made the first 2 main games and the manga so great. Once again the world of conglomerate nations is on the brink of...
Developed by Double Helix Games and published by Square Enix, Front Mission Evolved represents a bold departure from the tactical role-playing formula that originally made the franchise popular. Instead of commanding squads through turn-based battles, players take direct control of a heavily armed Wanzer in a third-person action experience that emphasizes mobility, customization, and explosive firefights. Set in a...
This was a great little game. I really liked the combat and customization. I didn't have super high expectations going into it, but I was very surprised I actually really enjoyed this one.
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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Front Mission Evolved scores 13/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/43000/front-mission-evolvedThe 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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