Theatre of War
Skip · Strategy · 2010
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 10, under the fair line, at $3.99.
- Length
- 11.1h
- Value
- $0.36/hr
- Reviews
- 61% of 377 positive
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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
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About the game
Command a special task force composed of different kinds of units, including tanks, APCs, field guns, mortars, various infantry regiments and will also have an opportunity to call for artillery and air support.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 72 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 80 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is cheaper than 72 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 91 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Sudden Strike 4 ($19.99, scores 55) beats it on value, while it beats Blitzkrieg 3 ($9.99, scores 2).
More about Theatre of War
Inside the two-hour refund window, 38 percent of the 131 reviews written there were positive, against 61 percent overall, and those are 44 percent of everything written about it.
What players say
A fun tactical game. Pretty difficult though, the game lets you chose any campaign for the start (listed in chronological order) and the Polish campaign is pretty hard if you play in historical order. (Allegedly it's even the hardest.)
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Surprisingly fun with a lot of weird, useless mechanics. Its a really interesting blend of Men of War where you can grab individual soldiers and make them do stuff and Combat Mission where the battles happen on pretty big areas with tanks, artillery, planes, infantry and the way the infantry moves, spots, shoots, misses, aims again, hits reminds me a lot of Combat Mission. However while its an interesting mix of...
They called it Theatre of War, but forgot to include the acting, the drama, or any sense of direction. Should be called 'Waiting for Godot: Artillery Edition.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Theatre of War scores 10/100 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/46290/theatre-of-warReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.