Wargroove
Fair · Strategy · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 20h
- Value
- $1.00/hr
- Reviews
- 82% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, DirectX 11 and/or OpenGL 3.3 compatible video card, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
Take to the battlefield with Wargroove, a strategy game for up to 4 players! Choose your Commander and wage turn-based war on battling factions. Design and share maps, cut-scenes and campaigns with easy-to-use editors and in-depth customization tools!
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
It has never been cheaper than $5.99. That was March 2023. Its cuts run 60 percent off as a rule. There have been 55 in the 8 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 12 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 5 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 83 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Battle for Wesnoth (free, scores 86) beats it on value, while it beats Gladiator Guild Manager ($14.99, scores 54).
Of the 653 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 12 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 62 percent of the 436 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 20 hours. Doing everything runs 84, 4.2 times as long.
The drop-off
81% start to <1% 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
15 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
I had fun but I wish there was more variance between the heroes and the factions, like exclusive units in each factions or different stats for each units and heroes. Right now, the different factions just feel like different skins for the same units.
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.
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Wargroove scores 65/100 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/607050/wargrooveThe 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 Sep 17, price as of Sep 24.
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