Swords and Soldiers HD
Skip · Action · 2010
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $5.99.
- Length
- 5h
- Value
- $1.20/hr
- Reviews
- 78% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, 64 MB graphics card, 297 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Rewrite history as you take control of the brutal Vikings, the devious Aztecs or the crafty Chinese in their global quest to win the favour of the Gods! Swords & Soldiers is a side-scrolling strategy game that lets you control an entire army and lets you wield devastating magical abilities.
What drives the score
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.59. That was November 2023. 66 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 80 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 5 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 14 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 72 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Awesomenauts ($19.99, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats Tooth and Tail ($19.99, scores 45).
5 hours to finish it, 15 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.0 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 5 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
38% start to 8% 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
2 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
Nahh this is not what I expected. I knew this is a very minimalistic 2D strategy game, one of those tactic games where you take one side and the enemy is on the opposite side of the screen, and you just click to build and send your soldiers to attack the enemy camp. I thought this is a casual game that can be used to rest between 2 serious games. The cute graphics often deceive buyers in the steam store. The reality...
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: critic score (Metacritic).
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Swords and Soldiers HD scores 49/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/63500/swords-and-soldiers-hdThe 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 5, price as of Sep 24.
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