Battlestations: Midway
Fair · Action · 2007
The verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 86% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$6.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$0.9786% offFair
- Cost per hourS
- $0.96/hr
- Reviews▼
- 78% of 984
- Critics
- 76 players 2 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 12% Action
Holding it back: Reviews
Watch this gameOne alert at $0.97 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 7.3h
- To 100%
- 10.7h 1.5x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 86 on record
- Typical cut
- 86% off
- Steam low
- $0.97 November 2017
- Sale every
- 48d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 5 now
- Cheaper than
- 43% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 74% of its genre
Price and player charts
Players
- Players online
- 5 when we last checked, on Oct 23, 00:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
The value story
The value story
Across all 86 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 86 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 12 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 74 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Silent Hunter® III ($9.99, scores 77) beats it on value, while it beats Aircraft Carrier Survival: Tutorial (free, scores 26).
More about Battlestations: Midway
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.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
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
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...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Windows only.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Battlestations: Midway scores 51/100 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/6870/battlestations-midwayReviews 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 Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.