ARMA: Gold Edition
Skip · Shooter · 2011
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $9.99.
- Length
- 25.7h
- Value
- $0.39/hr
- Reviews
- 76% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 6 GB of storage. Windows only.
ARMA: Gold is pack of ARMA: Armed Assault and an expansion pack ARMA: Queen's Gambit. ARMA is a first person tactical military shooter with large elements of realism and simulation. This game features a blend of large-scale military conflict spread over large areas alongside the more closed quarters battle.
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.99. That was December 2013. It has been discounted 102 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 80 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 41 percent on value. Among the games that feel like it, Arma Reforger ($39.99, scores 54) beats it on value, while it beats Squad 44 ($19.99, scores 27).
Of the 378 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 63 percent of the 299 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 35 percent of everything written about it.
Players
6 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
If I could sum this game up, it would be this: BMPs survive direct RPG hits, crews get out and shread your instantly before your character with clunky piss poor animations can get out of the way. While helicopter controls are a total disaster (e.g. pilot is simply unable to assign targets the way you could in OFP so you have to navigate through command menu, not before a Strela fired from across the map ends you...
Campaign is ass AI is janky as ♥♥♥♥ Enemy ai is aimbot and your squadmates dont understand whats going on. if yoou wany nostalgia go Cold war crisis this game is just ass
One of the more underrated games in the series. Please play if you play Arma and haven't given this game a chance.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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ARMA: Gold Edition scores 46/100 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/65780/arma-gold-editionThe 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 Jul 30, price as of Sep 24.
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