Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2

Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2

Skip · Strategy · 2019

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

It scores 41, under the fair line, at $19.99.

Cost per hourS
$0.50/hr
Reviews▼
74% of 11,094
Critics
77 players 3 lower
Genre rank
Top 28% Strategy

Holding it back: Reviews

Why
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
7% of players unlock the ending achievement on a 40.3-hour game.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Time and effort

Main story
40.3h
To 100%
123.2h 3.1x the story
Finish
7% reach the ending
Achievements
90

Price and sales

Sales
79 on record
Typical cut
70% off
Steam low
$3.99 May 2024
Sale every
35d last October 2026
Lowest now $3.59 at Fanaticalall-time low $3.27 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
179 now
Cheaper than
7% of its genre
Better reviewed
56% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

58% start to 7% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

79 discounts in the 8 years on record, a median of 70 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.

Its score sits in the top 28 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Aliens: Dark Descent ($11.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats Battlefleet Gothic: Armada (Classic) ($14.99, scores 26).

More about Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2

Steam's global achievement data puts about 7 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 40.3-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 23 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2024 to October 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,604 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 594 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 26 percent of the 1,077 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.

40.3 hours to finish it, 123 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.1 times the campaign.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 14 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
Cost per hour$0.50/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Engagement7% finish
How far players get (achievements). It can only add points
Holding it back
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds23 of 800 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

Good game, you can turn down the graphics for better gameplay altough it sometimes crashes
A Steam playerRecommendedafter 59h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Awesome sequel to Battlefleet. The graphics and effects are much improved. Love the background where you fight the battles. Sound quality is much an upgrade and solid. Love the different navies you fight, you need to change and adapts different tactics fighting each one. Campaign may be simple but it gets the game going. Love building the massive and maintaing the large ships. Very OP, devasting and looks great...
A Steam playerRecommendedafter 91h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
There are only 2 types of missions. Straight up battles or control points that you better can ignore and just straight up start fighting because your ships are most of the time of the slower variant where you can't really out maneuver the enemy. They add side objectives to add to the "variation" but since they won't give you a bonus in the fight it is just better to ignore it and focus the enemy down. The campaign...
A Steam playerNot recommendedafter 31h2 found this helpfulRead on Steam

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

About the game

Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 is the new real-time strategy game adapted from Games Workshop’s famous tabletop game that portrays the epic space battles of the Warhammer 40,000 universe.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 2 GB, GeForce GTX 660/Radeon HD 7870, 50 GB of storage. Windows only.

Cite this score

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Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 scores 41/100 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/573100/battlefleet-gothic-armada-2
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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 Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players-3
Critics77
Players74
Metacritic critics · 11,094 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperTindalos Interactive
PublisherFocus Entertainment
GenreStrategy
Released2019
Players750Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements90