Wargame: European Escalation
Fair · Strategy · 2012
The verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 80% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$9.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$2.4975% offFair
- Cost per hourS
- $0.36/hr
- Reviews▼
- 78% of 3,405
- Critics
- 81 players 3 lower
- Genre rank
- Top 13% Strategy
Holding it back: DRM, Reviews
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.49 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 28h
- To 100%
- 60.1h 2.1x the story
- Achievements
- 29
Price and sales
- Sales
- 86 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $0.99 June 2021
- Sale every
- 47d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 7 now
- Cheaper than
- 29% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 72% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
64% start to 3% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 86 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 about 4 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 13 percent. It is pricier than 71 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 72 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Wargame: Airland Battle ($19.99, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats WARNO ($39.99, scores 52).
More about Wargame: European Escalation
Of the 450 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 40 percent of the 454 reviews written there were positive, against 78 percent overall, and those are 17 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 28 hours. Doing everything runs 60, 2.1 times as long.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $1.99 (80% off). Predictions like this were right 87% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Last discount ended 31 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
The game itself is really cool. The models, graphics, mechanics; all good. But playing against AI (your only option since mp is naturally dead) feels like pouring burning gasoline over your butt cheeks. It cheats like crazy to resemble any kind of challenge to the player, but ends up being too much oppressive for someone who plays a wargame for the first time. It spams way too much units but doesn't do a bit of...
1 more review, not recommended
i at the time was extremely exited to play this, as its like warno and broken arrow with less requirements and i can run it fine, although ever since i got it, its been stuck with very high brightness and its almost impossible to play that way, im not gonna refund but if someone can help please do and i muddled with the settings to fix it but no changes sooo
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
The New Fatal Error DLC includes a new 5-mission Operation and touch-screen controls.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 10 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Wargame: European Escalation scores 53/100 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/58610/wargame-european-escalationReviews 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.