Arma: Cold War Assault Remastered

Arma: Cold War Assault Remastered

Fair · Shooter · 2011

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.

Cost per hourS
$0.43/hr
Reviews▼
80% of 6,480
Genre rank
Top 26% Shooter

Holding it back: Reviews

Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Time and effort

Main story
23.5h
To 100%
68.1h 2.9x the story

Price and sales

Sales
102 on record
Typical cut
80% off
Steam low
$0.99 April 2017
Sale every
40d last October 2026
Lowest now $1.99 at GOGall-time low $0.99 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
44 now
Cheaper than
46% of its genre
Better reviewed
55% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story

The value story

Across all 102 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 80 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Against its own genre its score lands in the top 26 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead ($19.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Arma Reforger ($39.99, scores 55).

More about Arma: Cold War Assault Remastered

6 of the 412 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 749 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 31 percent of everything written about it.

23.5 hours to finish it, 68 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.9 times the campaign.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Cost per hour$0.43/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
MonetizationNone
No in-game purchases. Paid DLC exists and is not docked
Holding it back
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Refunds6 of 412 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

What players say

Some games are more than just games. They're memories you can never truly leave behind. I grew up in a military housing complex, and the only video rental shop in the area mostly carried war games. I was only five or six years old when I picked up this game. I didn't even know its name back then. All I knew was that it felt incredibly exciting, fascinating, and, honestly, ridiculously difficult for a kid my age! I...
Cpt.MacMillanRecommendedafter 4.4h2 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I don't have any issue with the game itself, it's a good game, but in the remastered version there is no way to change the bind for the third person camera in settings (even when enabled), and since my keyboard does not have the numpad, I can't turn on/off the third person camera. I'm giving the "not recomended" review as there is a tiny chance that Bohiemia might see it and make a tiny update to fix it. So in...
Chlor_siarkaRecommendedafter 18hSep 2026Read on Steam
I play for 5-10 minutes and it turns into a powerpoint and have to restart my pc. No clue why. Hopefully I can finger it out bc I missed this game.
4th grade physiqueNot recommendedafter 87h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam

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

About the game

The genre-defining military sim that began as Operation Flashpoint (2001), now a modernized, 64-bit, cross-platform build for Windows and Linux, with its engine released as open source. Over 2 million copies sold. The Cold War battlefield of Everon and Nogova, remastered for today's hardware.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, OpenGL 3.3-capable GPU, 512 MB VRAM (e.g. Intel HD 3000), 20 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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Arma: Cold War Assault Remastered scores 60/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/65790/arma-cold-war-assault-remastered
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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 Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Details

DeveloperBohemia Interactive
PublisherBohemia Interactive
GenreShooter
Released2011
Players1.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate