Men of War: Vietnam
Skip · Shooter · 2011
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $7.99.
- Length
- 10.6h
- Value
- $0.75/hr
- Reviews
- 64% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, GeForce 6600 (Radeon 1950) 128Mb, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
Men of War: Vietnam brings the acclaimed real-time tactics series into a new theater of war – the jungles of Southeast Asia, 1968. Experience the chaos of the Vietnam War through two story-driven campaigns that reveal both sides of the conflict.
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $0.79, set in November 2024. Its cuts run 80 percent off as a rule. There have been 80 in the 14 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
It is cheaper than 62 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 82 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Men of War™ ($4.99, scores 68) beats it on value, while it beats Company of Heroes 3 ($23.99, scores 3).
Steam's global achievement data says about 9 percent of players ever finish it. On a 10.6-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. This site sampled 501 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 6 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 131 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 41 percent of the 297 reviews written there were positive, against 64 percent overall, and those are 27 percent of everything written about it.
10.6 hours to finish it, 28 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.6 times the campaign.
The drop-off
22% start to 9% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 10.6-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. 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
Not necessarily the weakest entry in the Men of War series, however certainly one of the more challenging. The change in scenery from the eastern front of WW2 is welcome, however navigating the jungle can be problematic. The complexity of jungle navigation and the high level of difficulty are the 2 main reasons why Men of War Vietnam currently has a mixed/negative steam rating. The game does however benefit from a...
THEY ARE IN THE TREES?!?! Nice addition to men of war series. Vietcong did dirty those pesky GIs. But burning whole swats of forests was such amazing feeling not too soon to be forgotten! 8/10
Man...This game crashes constantly, its fun, the foliage and trees are pretty sweet given its age but sweet jesus, save often and get ready to do the same thing over and over as it crashes, I want to recommend this game but I just can't in this condition. If you do play this game, watch out for the spike traps
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Men of War: Vietnam scores 14/100 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/63940/men-of-war-vietnamThe 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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