Phantom Doctrine
Skip · RPG · 2018
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 38, under the fair line, at $39.99.
- Length
- 34.6h
- Value
- $1.16/hr
- Reviews
- 74% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 550 Ti / Intel HD 620 / Radeon HD 5770, 35 GB of storage. Windows only.
The year is 1983. The world teeters on the verge of destruction as the Cold War tightens its icy grip. East or West: trust no one, question everything. The fate of humanity rests in your hands as you pit spy versus spy in tactical Phantom Doctrine.
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
It has never been cheaper than $3.99. That was June 2021. It has been discounted 62 times in the 8 years tracked here, typically at 90 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales.
Value puts it in the top 35 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden ($10.49, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Hard West ($19.99, scores 35).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 8 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 34.6-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 8 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 36 percent of the 353 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
34.6 hours to finish it, 113 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.3 times the campaign.
The drop-off
44% start to 8% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 34.6-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
21 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 10:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
Cite this score
Phantom Doctrine scores 38/100 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/559100/phantom-doctrineReviews 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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