IS Defense
Worth it · Shooter · 2016
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $5.99.
- Length
- 3.3h
- Value
- $1.82/hr
- Reviews
- 91% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 or AMD Radeon HD5850 (1 GB VRAM), 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
IS Defense is a game set in politically-fictional 2020 – where the expansion of ISIS went out of hand. The player takes the role of NATO’s heroic machine-gun operator, deployed to defend the shores of Europe.
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
The value story
December 2020 is where it bottomed out, at $0.89. Its cuts run 66 percent off as a rule. There have been 92 in the 10 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 9 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 73 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 81 percent. The nearest things to it, Easy Red 2 ($8.99, scores 72) and Battle Grounds III (free, scores 67), are both worse buys on this math.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 10 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 3.3-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 366 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 83 percent of the 368 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 25 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
52% start to 10% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
What players say
I love this game! and it could be so much better. I wish there where more guns and that you could use them simultaneously, like a 155 mm cannon or an upgraded rocket launcher that turns it into a Multiple launch Rocket system. And that the main machine gun can be upgraded to turn into a chaingun that goes up in caliber from 25MM all the way up to 50MM with upgrades for fire rate and damage, or you can choose to take...
8.5/10 At first I honestly thought that I came across some ISIS propoganda, which i thought was cool just to have my hands on it even though I despise ISIS. The fact that they always win the game and the main screen having bad lookin dudes wearing rags as opposed to the hero gunner you get to play made me think so, but it is in fact the opposite. This game is absolutely worth the $1.19 and then some. I am surprised...
This is exactly what every European country should be doing right now to stop the invasion of islam. We need to be doing this at Dover instead allowing them on to British soil This game was made 10 years ago, yet the game is so realistic, they got it just right. Only 1 man willing to stand up and fight for his country whilst everyone else just stands around and watches because they don't have the guts. To many soft...
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Cite this score
IS Defense scores 77/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/448370/is-defenseReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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