Grand Tactician: The Civil War (1861-1865)
Skip · Strategy · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 36, under the fair line, at $44.99.
- Length
- 26.4h
- Value
- $1.70/hr
- Reviews
- 75% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, 2 GB, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
Take command of the Union or the Confederacy. Prepare your nation for war, recruit and organize great armies and fleets under legendary commanders like Grant, Lee, Jackson or Farragut, plan cunning maneuvers on an epic campaign map and defeat your enemies in real-time battles!
What drives the score
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $17.99, set in November 2025. It has been discounted 24 times in the 6 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 9 weeks between sales.
On value it sits in the top 36 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 61 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Ultimate General: Civil War ($29.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats Total War: ROME REMASTERED ($29.99, scores 32).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 12 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written September 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 49 percent of the 149 reviews written there were positive, against 75 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
Players
155 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 18:49 UTC.
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What players say
tutorial is jack, i can say it certainly is Stonwall jackson, but jack****. the tutorial is so bugged to the point you can't play. even if you go through the hell of reading what is essentially a book on the controls etc and then restart and fast forward it still glitches on you. looks like a fun game but to learn the game via tutorial is so infuriating that i might as well spend another day with my narc ex wife...
This game has to have the most frustrating, least intuitive UI ever. Clicking "Start Campaign" starts nothing, clicking "Start Tutorial" starts nothing. Anything that may have a chance in pointing you in right direction does nothing. I have 2.1 hours invested in this game according to Steam and I can honestly say I've never gotten past what may be the start screen.
I had this game on my wishlist for years. I never got it because it just looked to complicated and I'm a hoi4 player. Well i finally got it and wish I had got it sooner. If hoi4 and total war had a baby that loved the civil war and was smarter that's what this game is. A grand strategy is a grand strategy where this games shines is the whiskey and lemon DLC. You can make your own character that only has command over...
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Grand Tactician: The Civil War (1861-1865) scores 36/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/654890/grand-tactician-the-civil-war-1861-1865Reviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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