Realpolitiks
Skip · Strategy · 2017
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 11, under the fair line, at $14.99.
- Length
- 41h
- Value
- $0.37/hr
- Reviews
- 62% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel HD 520 or better, 1GB VRAM or more, 696 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Become the leader of any contemporary country in this streamlined real-time grand strategy game. Use diplomacy, espionage, military and economic power to deal with other nations, while tackling issues such as terrorism, financial crises and medical epidemics, all in an effort to achieve global domination!
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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $2.24, set in January 2024. Its cuts run 80 percent off as a rule. There have been 65 in the 10 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 83 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 92 percent. Crisis in the Kremlin ($4.99, scores 67) outscores it, and so does Age of History II ($5.99, scores 82). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
52 from critics against 62 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Of the 313 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to July 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 32 percent of the 105 reviews written there were positive, against 62 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
53% start to 2% 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
5 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 12:57 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Totally acurate political simulation of the real world... I mean in 2017 devs couldn't know that Russia will atack Ukraine or that Trump will try to get Greenland! Man... If China conqure Mars before any other nation or Roman Empire is resotre in 2222... Devs 100% have time machine! Score: Casineria/Bankeria
Originally played this game on the Switch and loved it there, and it's a far better experience here. I don't know what it is about this title, but it scratches an itch. It is for political strategy, what Warzone 2100 was for RTS.
Is this a good game? No, not really. It's a 5.5/10 that could have been a 7/10 except the devs immediately ran off to start making the sequel instead of patching the bugs here. (One big one causes the prices of new tech to go up exponentially instead of linearally meaning you'll almost certainly fail the main campaign around the year 2070 which sux if you started in 2020 and were hoping to win in 2100)... But, um...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Realpolitiks scores 11/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/553260/realpolitiksReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.
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