Silent Hunter 5®: Battle of the Atlantic
Skip · Strategy · 2010
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $9.99.
- Reviews
- 45% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 512 MB DirectX 9.0c-compliant video card(*see supported list), 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
Step behind the periscope of a German U-boat and take on the Allied Forces in famous battles across the vast Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. The best-selling submarine series of all time continues with the highly anticipated Silent Hunter: Battle of the Atlantic.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Strategy game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $2.49. That was November 2020. It has been discounted 38 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 66 percent off, with about 8 weeks between sales.
It is pricier than 70 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 99 percent. Silent Hunter® III ($2.49, scores 66) outscores it, and so does Silent Hunter®: Wolves of the Pacific ($2.49, scores 24). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
The press liked it more than its buyers did, 62 against 45 percent.
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 12 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,864 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 610 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 20 percent of the 678 reviews written there were positive, against 45 percent overall, and those are 28 percent of everything written about it.
Players
4 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Silent Hunter 5®: Battle of the Atlantic scores 0/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). Length is estimated at 8 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/48110/silent-hunter-5-battle-of-the-atlanticThe 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 Aug 2, price as of Aug 29.
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