Wargame: European Escalation
Fair · Strategy · 2012
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 32.3h
- Value
- $0.31/hr
- Reviews
- 78% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 10 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The New Fatal Error DLC includes a new 5-mission Operation and touch-screen controls.
What drives the score
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.99. That was June 2021. It has been discounted 85 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 12 percent on value. It is pricier than 70 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 71 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).
Of the 451 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 40 percent of the 455 reviews written there were positive, against 78 percent overall, and those are 17 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
64% start to 3% 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
Players
8 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
this ♥♥♥♥ is the best thing Ive ever PLAYED FOR 2.50 EURO I GET 4 FREE DLCS AN ENTIRE CAMPAIGN? the Multiplayer is DEAD but thers a dedicated or dedicated servers you can join to play with people love the game 10/10 Would reccomend (camera and controlls MIGHT give you a hard time at first) but its literally ostfront but way more zoomed out and instead of managining individual soldiers you can make groubs of tanks i...
Wargame: European Escalation, developed by Eugen Systems, is a real-time tactics experience that strips away many of the familiar conventions of the RTS genre and replaces them with something far more deliberate and demanding. Set against the backdrop of an alternate Cold War conflict in Europe, it focuses not on spectacle or rapid-fire micromanagement, but on the slow, calculated application of military doctrine...
The main buzzkills for me was the accuracy of the units and the AI. The accuracy issues can be best summed up as feeling like a Hollywood movie: A whole lot of shooting at things but not a lot of hitting those things. The AI complaint is that from what I could tell the AI doesn't have the same limiters the player does which got annoying pretty quick. (You could kill a large nation's worth of tanks and the AI would...
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Wargame: European Escalation scores 53/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/58610/wargame-european-escalationThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 1, price as of Sep 24.
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