Fantasy Wars
Fair · Strategy · 2010
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 20h 62.5h to 100%
- Value
- $0.25/hr
- Reviews
- 86% of 319 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Fantasy Wars is a turn-based strategy game set in a fantasy world. Combining both classic strategy gameplay and sophisticated 3D graphics players can experience epic battles like never before. Taking place in a fantasy world of Human kingdoms, Orc clans, Dwarfs' citadels and Elven forests the player is thrust into a world of war and...
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 12 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 68 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 80 percent, about 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 6 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 86 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Battle for Wesnoth (free, scores 86) beats it on value, while it beats Fantasy General II ($39.99, scores 52).
More about Fantasy Wars
The press gave it 67; the people who bought it give it 86 percent. A 19-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Finishing takes 20 hours; clearing it takes 63, which is 3.1 times the campaign.
Players
- Players online
- 3 when we last checked, on Oct 8, 09:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Great title, reminiscent in atmosphere of later Heroes V - the storyline is intriguing, maps are challenging, and unit development requires thoughtful actions from the start - definitely worth playing, it's a shame it's already forgotten!
1 more review, not recommended
This game punishes worse players by giving less rewards and makes good players even more OP (gold vs bronze/silver medal). It's hard to get a gold medal from the first run because you just don't know what forces are playing against you, so you will have to repeat the same mission dozens of times or save/load scum your way (not fun). I also don't appreciate mandatory and quite strict turn count limits (remember...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Fantasy Wars scores 66/100 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/63900/fantasy-warsReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.