Ultimate General: Civil War
Worth it · Strategy · 2017
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $29.99.
- Length
- 44.3h
- Value
- $0.68/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Ultimate General: Civil War is a tactical real time strategy war-game. Experience the bloodiest period of U.S. history - the American Civil War of 1861-1865.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $7.49. That was November 2019. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 52 in the 10 years tracked, about 8 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 2 percent on value. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games closest to it, Ultimate General: American Revolution ($49.99, scores 0) and Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts ($34.99, scores 8) both come in lower.
9 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 43 percent of the 408 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
44.3 hours to finish it, 171 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.8 times the campaign.
The drop-off
69% start to 1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
288 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 07:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
If you're into RTS and, more importantly, the American Civil War, this is the game for you.
easily one of the best strat games out there. straight forward but exciting campaign with a gentle learning curve in economy management vs battle plan. both sides of the conflict offers a lot of fun gameplay.
Bugs are apparent later on, but the campaign and battles are intensely fun once you get invested in your army.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Ultimate General: Civil War scores 79/100 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/502520/ultimate-general-civil-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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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