Afghanistan '11
Skip · Strategy · 2017
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 29, under the fair line, at $29.99.
- Length
- 10h
- Value
- $3.00/hr
- Reviews
- 74% of 407 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 154 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Afghanistan '11 is the sequel to the highly praised and innovative Vietnam '65. It enhances and builds on it: Afghanistan '11 changes the paradigm of wargaming and manages to bring Counter-Insurgency and guerrilla warfare to your screen, properly represented thanks to a revolutionary gameplay formula!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics card (Shader Model 2+), 205 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 55 times in the 10 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 70 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 22 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Evil Bank Manager ($11.99, scores 44) beats it on value, while it beats Millennia ($13.99, scores 16).
More about Afghanistan '11
Steam's global achievement data puts about 9 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 10-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.
The drop-off
60% start to 9% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 2 when we last checked, on Oct 12, 11:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Great game! Brother was in the 10th Mountain Division and I was in the 101st Airborne Division. Deployed to Afghanistan from 2010-2011. Brings back memories both good and bad.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
pretty fun, I get to LARP as the ANSDF which is cool, got the game on sale and i get to raze opium fields and bomb taliban fighters. Peak gameplay although it seems the game is a little dated and has a few bugs. Overall it's a really good game and I would play this game if you like RTS games and hate terrorism. (P.S, the game is incredibly accurate as my clearly UN convoy full of humanitarian aid got blown up by a...
Realistic only in the way that nothing works the way it is supposed to. I'm still struggling with the tutorials which aren't and half the time I'm struggling to make things work according to the game parameters. I wouldn't spend my money again.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Afghanistan '11 scores 29/100 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/580710/afghanistan-11Reviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.