Battlestations: Midway
Fair · Action · 2007
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $6.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 7.3h
- Value
- $0.96/hr
- Reviews
- 78% positive
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Windows only.
Battlestations: Midway is an immense action game that drops players into massive air, sea, and undersea battles from Pearl Harbor to the Battle of Midway.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.97. That was November 2017. Its cuts run 86 percent off as a rule. There have been 85 in the 14 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 13 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 72 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Silent Hunter® III ($2.49, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats World of Warships (free, scores 47).
This site sampled 381 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 55 percent of the 262 reviews written there were positive, against 78 percent overall, and those are 30 percent of everything written about it.
Players
2 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
Battlestations: Midway by Eidos Interactive and Square Enix is a distinctive World War II title that blends real-time strategy with direct action control, creating a hybrid experience that still feels unusual even years after its release. Rather than choosing between commanding from a distance or engaging on the front lines, the game allows you to do both at any moment. You can oversee an entire fleet from a...
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.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Battlestations: Midway scores 51/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/6870/battlestations-midwayThe 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 Aug 1, price as of Sep 24.
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