Codex of Victory
Skip · Strategy · 2017
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 25, under the fair line, at $14.99.
- Length
- 12.4h
- Value
- $1.21/hr
- Reviews
- 69% of 400 positive
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Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 532 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
About the game
In this sci-fi turn-based strategy with real-time base-building elements, you’ll be defending human territories against the transhuman Augments. Expand your HQ, and manufacture and upgrade an army of advanced drones to wage interplanetary war for Humanity!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVidia / AMD / Intel (HD 3000 or better) with 512 MB VRAM, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
Across all 44 discounts in the 10 years tracked, the median cut is 80 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 76 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 83 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 74 percent. On the same math Xenonauts ($24.99, scores 74) and Halfway ($12.99, scores 33) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about Codex of Victory
Steam's global achievement data puts 43 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15.
The drop-off
43% start to 43% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
What players say
I've had this game for a long time, but have not played it much. Every once in a while, I re-install and play it again only to be reminded of how terrible it is, so I uninstall it. Wash, rinse, repeat. The graphics are nice, the sound and music are good, but the game mechanics are really, really bad. The game is really now about tactics, or strategic unit selection or placement. This game is about grinding unit...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
This is utterly garbage. It's completely unbalanced, totally uninspiring and frustrating to play. I love turn based games, I'm old enough to have played the original UFO: Enemy Unknown (year 1994), so when I say that this game is garbage, it's because I know what a good game is. Do yourself a favor, avoid it. Initially I thought it might be a good game, but after a few hours I regretted buying it. Combat is not...
It took me quite a while to 'get' it. I started the game a few times but could never get far into the campaign. This time I'm actually getting further into the campaign. Feels like a good mix of Xcom and strategy. Some of the missions do feel very difficult though, and I find myself delaying doing the missions so that I can squeeze out a bit more research first.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Codex of Victory scores 25/100 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/464100/codex-of-victoryReviews 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.