Strain Tactics
Fair · RPG · 2017
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 4h 40h to 100%
- Value
- $3.75/hr
- Reviews
- 86% of 243 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 9 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Strain Tactics is a real-time-with-pause tactical game, where you command a squad of soldiers to liberate earth from an alien infestation. Using your helibase, deploy your custom squad and provide air support. Remember to keep your crew sane and motivated while staying clear of alien contamination!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 399 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 47 discounts in the 9 years tracked, the median cut is 70 percent, about 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 8 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 77 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 83 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Cepheus Protocol ($19.99, scores 27) and 10 Miles To Safety ($9.99, scores 30).
More about Strain Tactics
Steam's global achievement data puts about 5 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 4-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.
The main story runs 4 hours. Doing everything runs 40, 10 times as long.
The drop-off
63% start to 5% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
What players say
This is by far the rarest gem in Steam Store. It is an RTS game with complex mechanics yet with easy controls. It's always a great fun to boot this up an replay the campaign.
2 more reviews
Loads of weapons and items, some very unusual soldiers with odd special abilities, and a teddy bear as a potential soldier. What's not to like?
If you like Rimworld's RTS combat, you'll love this game. Micromanaging your pawns, equiping them to fit their specializations, and even supporting them via airship's abilities. It's all so satisfying! And the final levels were pretty tense for me as I had grown so attached to my crew I got worried so many times I might lose one of them right until the end! Definitely one of my favorite combat systems and with the...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Strain Tactics scores 65/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/621810/strain-tacticsReviews 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 30, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.