Art of War: Red Tides

Art of War: Red Tides

Fair · Strategy · 2016 · Early Access

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Free and middling. Worth a look if the genre is yours.

PriceS
Free to play
Reviews▼
79% of 6,961
Genre rank
Top 17% Strategy

Holding it back: Early access, Reviews

Players and genre

Online
41 now
Better reviewed
76% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story

The value story

Against its own genre its score lands in the top 17 percent. It is better reviewed than 76 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, War Selection (free, scores 63) beats it on value, while it beats Kingdom Wars (free, scores 19).

It is still busy. 41 players were online when we last checked, on Nov 2, 12:48 UTC, across 35 days of weekly checks.

More about Art of War: Red Tides

Inside the two-hour refund window, 85 percent of the 105 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.

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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
Cost per hourFree
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reach1.5M+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). A free game has no price to weigh, so this is its value read
Holding it back
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Early accessUnfinished
Still in development, a small confidence discount until 1.0
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
RefundsFree
A free game cannot be refunded, so the label never applies
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Art of War: Red Tides is a fair multiplayer strategy game that allows different teams on the same platform (e.g. smartphones, PC, etc.) to battle against each other. You will encounter players around the world!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, GT220, 9500GT, HD4650 or greater, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.

No data upstream: length (HowLongToBeat), critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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Art of War: Red Tides scores 50/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/558100/art-of-war-red-tides
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Details

DeveloperGame Science
PublisherGame Science
GenreStrategy
Released2016
Players1.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate