First Strike
Skip · Action · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 29, under the fair line, at $11.99.
- Reviews
- 75% of 2,036 positive
Watch this gameOne alert when a sale makes it a BANGER.
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
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Action game (about 6 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
About the game
FIRST STRIKE is a fast paced real time strategy game where you play one of the twelve biggest nuclear superpowers of the world – from known superpowers like the USA to an upstart hellraiser like North Korea – and try to be the last one remaining when the whole world blows to smithereens.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, nVidia GeForce 9400M, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
November 2018 is where it bottomed out, at $2.99. Across all 27 discounts in the 9 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 5 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 78 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 62 percent. On the same math WARNO ($39.99, scores 52) and Mechabellum ($14.99, scores 44) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about First Strike
Of the 692 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 6 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 65 percent of the 383 reviews written there were positive, against 75 percent overall, and those are 20 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
59% start to 7% 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
No data upstream: length (HowLongToBeat), critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
First Strike scores 29/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. Length is estimated at 6 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/587000/first-strikeReviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 9. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.