Red Faction®: Armageddon™

Red Faction®: Armageddon™

Skip · Shooter · 2011

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

It scores 28, under the fair line, at $19.99.

Cost per hour▼
$2.50/hr
Reviews▼
73% of 5,051
Critics
74 players 1 lower
Genre rank
Top 64% Shooter

Holding it back: Reviews, Cost per hour

Why
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Time and effort

Main story
8h
To 100%
19.6h 2.5x the story
Achievements
58

Price and sales

Sales
99 on record
Typical cut
80% off
Steam low
$1.99 July 2014
Sale every
38d last September 2026
Lowest now $1.99 at GOGall-time low $1.99 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
3 now
Cheaper than
16% of its genre
Better reviewed
35% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

75% start to 3% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

Across all 99 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 80 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 65 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Red Faction Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered ($19.99, scores 49) beats it on value, while it beats LOST PLANET® 3 ($24.99, scores 10).

More about Red Faction®: Armageddon™

Of the 540 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 44 percent of the 485 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.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
MonetizationNone
No in-game purchases. Paid DLC exists and is not docked
Holding it back
Cost per hour$2.50/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Refunds2 of 540 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

It's fundamentally flawed, but by 2026 standards of gaming that makes it "ok". The biggest L here is the move to an indoor environment. Imagine if, after releasing GTA 5 and making hundreds of millions, Rockstar was like "nah let's go back to 2D games". That's what this game is like after coming from the high point of Red Faction Guerrilla. It feels limited. Secondly, it's so boring. Corridors and darkness ad...
DaimoNot recommendedafter 11hSep 2026Read on Steam
1 more review, not recommended
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...
5xoNot recommendedafter 9.4hAug 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

Red Faction: Armageddon Path to War includes 4 new missions, 2 unlockable items and 10 new achievements!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 7.5 GB of storage. Windows only.

Cite this score

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Red Faction®: Armageddon™ scores 28/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/55110/red-faction-armageddon
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Reviews 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 Nov 6, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players-1
Critics74
Players73
Metacritic critics · 5,051 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperVolition
PublisherDeep Silver
GenreShooter
Released2011
Players1.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements58