Rusted Warfare - RTS
Worth it · Strategy · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.99.
- Reviews
- 96% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 297 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
{{An RTS inspired by the classics of the past!}} Making up for it's subpar retro graphics with fun gameplay and modern multi-threaded tech enabling huge battles to run smooth... Featuring singleplayer challenges, skirmish, sandbox, 10-player multiplayer & workshop modding.
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
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Strategy game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $2.49. That was January 2019. 59 discounts in the 9 years on record. They run about 40 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 61 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Mindustry ($9.99, scores 95) beats it on value, while it beats Original War ($9.99, scores 69).
This site sampled 502 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 92 percent of the 544 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
Players
160 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 10:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Rusted Warfare - RTS scores 81/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is estimated at 8 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/647960/rusted-warfare-rtsReviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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