Insurgency: Sandstorm
Fair · Multiplayer · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 70% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$29.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$8.9970% off
- Cost per hour
- $1.33/hr
- Reviews▼
- 85% of 133,700
- Critics
- 78 players 7 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 7% Multiplayer
Holding it back: Reviews
Recent reviews trending down: 76% over the last 30 days against 85% all-time.
Watch this gameOne alert at $8.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 22.6h
- To 100%
- 247.2h 10.9x the story
- Achievements
- 35
Price and sales
- Sales
- 76 on record
- Typical cut
- 55% off
- Steam low
- $5.99 September 2026
- Sale every
- 36d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 722 now
- Recent reviews
- 76% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 3% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 88% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
79% start to 1% rarestA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 76 times in the 8 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 55 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 7 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Insurgency ($14.99, scores 86) beats it on value, while it beats Day of Infamy ($14.99, scores 36).
More about Insurgency: Sandstorm
Players rate it 85 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 76 percent. Something recent has soured the room. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 20 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2026 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 52 percent of the 5,078 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 22.6 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 247, 11 times as much.
133,700 reviews stand behind that percentage.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 14 days ago.
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
What players say
Chill game if you want to play co-op. Good game mechanics, graphics and performance
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
incredible game. 2 angry chinese guys joined my lobby and started yelling in his language while Vietnam war music was playing in the background
You'd be better off wasting your time and money in CS2.. Yes, I know CS2 is cheater filled; somehow better.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Insurgency: Sandstorm is a hardcore tactical FPS built on lethal close-quarters combat and ruthless intensity. Every bullet count, every step matters, and teamwork is your only path to survival in the brutality of modern warfare.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760/AMD Radeon HD 7970, 40 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
Insurgency: Sandstorm scores 67/100 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/581320/insurgency-sandstormReviews 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 Nov 5, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.