Phantom Brigade
Fair · Strategy · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $29.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 33h
- Value
- $0.91/hr
- Reviews
- 81% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (6GB), or AMD Radeon RX 580 (8 GB), 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
Phantom Brigade 2.0 is a cinematic, tactical mech strategy game with a revolutionary timeline-based command system. See the future, predict enemy actions, and plot your counterattack on the timeline! Recruit and level up your squad of rebels to retake war-torn Fyrland from the Kaskad occupation.
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
June 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $11.99. Its cuts run 30 percent off as a rule. There have been 29 in the 4 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 8 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 81 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Into the Breach ($14.99, scores 86) beats it on value, while it beats Mechabellum ($8.99, scores 49).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 6 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 61 percent of the 385 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
91% 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
132 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 22:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
The bones of Phantom Brigade are great. I really enjoy the mech building and the prediction mechanic. Having everything play out all at once is fantastic. However, the game's insistent reliance on randomly generated regional scenarios creates an exceptionally frustrating experience. My first playthrough was painfully easy for the first two regions, after which it became punishingly difficult to the point of...
It sounds cool but the actual balancing is non-existent and the mech customization is confusing at best with weapons of the same quality and name having different stats all together. My first mission right after the tutorial ended with all my pilots dying because a spear-gun mech sniped my entire squad through multiple buildings before I had a chance to get to it, forcing me to restart the campaign. This was right...
It's like XCOM but with a timeline instead of phases, and mechs/pilots instead of soldiers. Definitely recommended, especically if you're into mechs. Looks like it's come a really long way since it's release.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Cite this score
Phantom Brigade scores 59/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/553540/phantom-brigadeReviews 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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