Joint Task Force

Joint Task Force

Worth it · Action · 2007

Steam Deck Unsupported

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $7.99.

Length
24h
Value
$0.33/hr
Reviews
88% of 336 positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
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 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

Raising the score
Value$0.33/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Holding it back
Reviews88% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 86% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 171 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Joint Task Force is the real-time strategy (RTS) game where you command the frontline forces in tomorrow's most hazardous conflicts. Lead twenty dramatic missions in explosive war-zones including the Middle East, Central Asia, and the Balkans.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Windows only.

The value story

It has been discounted 56 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 66 percent, about 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

On value it sits in the top 3 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 61 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 91 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts ($19.99, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Total War: THREE KINGDOMS ($39.99, scores 60).

More about Joint Task Force

68 from critics against 88 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.

Players

Players online
6 when we last checked, on Oct 9, 16:55 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

one of the best rts games i ever played, jesus christ how i wished for a sequence a remake a whatever, more missions, cuz the campaign is too short for my taste, you want more and more
itsjover.comRecommendedafter 3.3hJul 2026Read on Steam
1 more review, not recommended
until i could discover a work around to the problem of- the procedure could not be located in the dll msvcp80dl. i find it impossibile to play it
robertburnett.burnett49Not recommendedafter 7.8hAug 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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Joint Task Force scores 71/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/6400/joint-task-force
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Reviews 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.

Critics vs players+20
Critics68
Players88
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 336 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperMost Wanted Entertainment
PublisherHD Publishing
GenreAction
Released2007
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate