Ancestors Legacy
Fair · Strategy · 2018
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $34.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 29.5h
- Value
- $1.19/hr
- Reviews
- 79% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 or AMD Radeon HD5850 (1 GB VRAM), 24 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Ancestors Legacy is a squad-based real time strategy with a strong focus on tactics. Inspired by medieval European history, it brings to life four different nations and their conflicts, usually solved by war.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $3.49, set in December 2023. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 74 in the 9 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 16 percent on value. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 74 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Total War: ATTILA ($19.99, scores 65) beats it on value, while it beats A Total War Saga: THRONES OF BRITANNIA ($19.99, scores 28).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 9 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 59 percent of the 580 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
75% 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
About 34 players at once, as of Sep 24.
Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Had this sitting in my library for ages and finally played it. Pretty fun overall, but kinda hard if you're new to RTS games. It's also mentally draining, so I needed a break after some chapters. Mostly played campaign and Skirmish, didn't touch multiplayer. Some achievements are easy, others feel almost impossible, but finally getting the hard ones is really satisfying.
A cool and brutal RTS game. While it might not get any updates anytime soon, it's worth trying out. My complaint is very simple: I wish they would add more factions, since we only have 4 or 5. Still, it's good! Warcraft 3 had 4 factions too, but I kind of wanted to see more and more urban skirmish maps instead of maps built solely for single player.
The gameplay is solid. weirdly, whoever wrote the story REALLY hates christians. To a silly degree.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Ancestors Legacy scores 50/100 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/620590/ancestors-legacyReviews 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 Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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