BATTLETECH
Fair · Action · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $39.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 51.1h
- Value
- $0.78/hr
- Reviews
- 84% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti or AMD ATI Radeon HD 5870 (1 GB VRAM), 35 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Take command of your own mercenary outfit of 'Mechs and the MechWarriors that pilot them, struggling to stay afloat as you find yourself drawn into a brutal interstellar civil war.
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 $9.99. That was May 2020. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 74 in the 9 years tracked, about 6 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 6 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 3 percent on value. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut ($14.99, scores 80) beats it on value, while it beats Phantom Brigade ($29.99, scores 59).
10 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2023 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 26 percent of the 1,108 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 51.1 hours; clearing it takes 149, which is 2.9 times the campaign.
It came out 8 years ago and 1.4K were still playing it at the last check.
The drop-off
90% 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
1,446 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
::Playing on Steam Deck:: After about 100 hours of this game, I'm finding myself loving it. Granted, I'm a fan of tabletop games like BattleTech, so this scratches that itch for me. I'm especially loving Career Mode, where you take your mercenary company into the Inner Sphere, choosing missions and trying not lose all your credits... or the lives of all your hired help. This game does not skimp on mechs or their...
As others have said better - the original game is great, faithful to the worldbuilding of the Battletech. great story, fine balance of mechanics, the geometry/problem solving of small group mech on mech engagements. Do recommend. But Wait, Theres More! The MOD community for Battletech is out of this world - and have added depth of content that built on the original to fill in the universe of the game quite...
The game is good, I had fun with it. But there's a bug in the game that causes cutscene audio to not play properly. It completely ruins the atmosphere. Especially towards the end. The worst part is that any fix seems only temporary and will break within a loading screen. I literally started a mission, had sound in the pre-mission cutscene and no sound in the post mission cutscene. I've spend way too much time trying...
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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BATTLETECH scores 67/100 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/637090/battletechThe 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 14, price as of Sep 24.
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