Jagged Alliance - Back in Action
Skip · RPG · 2012
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 36, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 44.7h 80.2h to 100%
- Value
- $0.45/hr
- Reviews
- 73% of 1,775 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
A contemporary remake of the much-loved series of turn-based mercenary-themed strategy games.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 84 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 39 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Battle Brothers ($8.99, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats King's Bounty II ($39.99, scores 9).
More about Jagged Alliance - Back in Action
62 from critics against 73 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Of the 369 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to October 2026.
The drop-off
70% 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
What players say
This game hits an itch that many games do not. I love the real time/ turn based hybrid. The game needs some tweaking but once it is to my liking, there is a certain joy I get out of it that other turn based tactical strategy games cannot fill.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Absolutely love the game. I think there is a lot of unfair criticisms of the game in the reviews. A lot of people say its not as good as the other JAs and stuff, I think its better with a pause and go system rather than turn based. I am aware this is a essentially a 3d remake of JA2 but I would rather play this and Crossfire over the originals or JA3...thats just me though. Start with some bad stuff; the voice...
Watered down remake of JA:2 missing a lot of the things that made it a strategy game.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Jagged Alliance - Back in Action scores 36/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/57740/jagged-alliance-back-in-actionReviews 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 2, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.