STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
BANGER · Shooter · 2009
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $9.99.
- Length
- 8.7h
- Value
- $1.15/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, 64MB 3D Graphics card with Vertex Shader and Pixel Shader (VS/PS) capability, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $2.49, set in May 2016. Its cuts run 65 percent off as a rule. There have been 55 in the 14 years tracked, about 10 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 2 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 10 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 4 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 97 percent of its genre. It outscores the games it most resembles, including STAR WARS™ Battlefront II (Classic, 2005) ($9.99, scores 67) and STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II ($5.99, scores 49).
The math says it holds its tier up to $11.19, and you are being asked for $9.99.
The press gave it 78; the people who bought it give it 96 percent. An 18-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Of the 608 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 10 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 2,110 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.
Players
68 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
It's like playing a singleplayer co-op shooter (and I love co-op shooters). A surprising amount of depth to both the FPS and strategy gameplay. I played in hard mode and I died plenty, but often the answer to beating a section I was stuck on was a change in squad tactics rather than simply improving my shooting on the next try. Alongside fantastic art, music, characters and atmosphere, this makes for one of the best...
very fun game, as long as you have a mouse with extra buttons for the commands you give your squad. i felt the ending was a bit rushed.
I love old slow paced first person games and one of the best example is this game right here.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™ scores 87/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/6000/star-wars-republic-commandoThe 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 3, price as of Sep 24.
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