Red Alliance

Red Alliance

Skip · Shooter · 2018

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 43, under the fair line, at $11.99.

Length
3.9h
Value
$3.07/hr
Reviews
78% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
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Length
3.9h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
11.7h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$3.07
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$11.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
78%
298 reviews, as of Sep 29
Players
10K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2018

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, AMD Radeon HD 7870 (2 GB) or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 (2 GB), 8 GB of storage. Windows only.

Red Alliance is an atmospheric, dark action thriller single player game with elements of horror. The game takes place in Eastern Europe where the society is under oppressive regime enforced by a mysterious scientist whom the player must stop to restore justice.
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Raising the score
Engagement69% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$3.07/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews78% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 77% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
Length3.9 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach10K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 177 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

January 2022 is where it bottomed out, at $4.79. It has been discounted 72 times in the 8 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 4 weeks between sales.

On value it sits in the top 49 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Black Mesa ($19.99, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats INDUSTRIA ($19.99, scores 25).

Steam's global achievement data puts 69 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15.

3.9 hours to finish it, 12 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.0 times the campaign.

The drop-off

69% start to 69% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Red Alliance scores 43/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/594050/red-alliance
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Reviews 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 1.

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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

Developer2ndUp Studios
Publisher2ndUp Studios
GenreShooter
Released2018
Achievements35