Red Faction®: Armageddon™
Skip · Shooter · 2011
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $1.99.
- Length
- 8h
- Value
- $0.25/hr
- Reviews
- 73% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 7.5 GB of storage. Windows only.
Red Faction: Armageddon Path to War includes 4 new missions, 2 unlockable items and 10 new achievements!
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How to read this
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The value story
July 2014 is where it bottomed out, at $1.99. Its cuts run 80 percent off as a rule. There have been 99 in the 14 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today's $1.99 at 90 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
At full price it scores 28. The current cut is what makes it a 37.
It is pricier than 79 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 61 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Red Faction Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered ($3.99, scores 59) beats it on value, while it beats LOST PLANET® 3 ($24.99, scores 8).
Of the 534 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 44 percent of the 483 reviews written there were positive, against 73 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 8 hours. Doing everything runs 20, 2.5 times as long.
The drop-off
75% start to 3% 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
6 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
What a bag of issues this game is. Small FOV and shaky camera during anything happening on screen makes you feel like looking out the window while riding inside a washing machine. Physics were a gimmick selling point during 2000s, but what it amounts to is you get stuck every step on some physics-based object. This is not cover-based shooter, it is just 3rd person shooter, so you get shot at from everywhere which...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Red Faction®: Armageddon™ scores 37/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/55110/red-faction-armageddonThe 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 Sep 13, price as of Sep 24.
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