Army Men RTS

Army Men RTS

Worth it · Action · 2017

Steam Deck Unsupported

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $5.99.

Length
9.2h 21.6h to 100%
Value
$0.65/hr
Reviews
88% of 1,490 positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Value$0.65/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Holding it back
Reviews88% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds10 of 411 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

About the game

Army Men RTS brings you back to the days of staging battles with tiny plastic soldiers in your backyard...except these green soldiers carry out your every command!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 3D Graphics card compatible with DirectX 9.0, 348 MB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

Across all 49 discounts in the 9 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 94 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Company of Heroes ($14.99, scores 92) beats it on value, while it beats Act of Aggression - Reboot Edition ($29.99, scores 15).

More about Army Men RTS

67 from critics against 88 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.

10 of the 411 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to October 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,362 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 359 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 73 percent of the 352 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 27 percent of everything written about it.

The main story runs 9.2 hours. Doing everything runs 22, 2.3 times as long.

What players say

Dated graphics and controls aside this is pretty solid for a 24 year old game. I think I would have loved this game if I had found it as a kid but I was too busy playing with army men in real life and and having no idea this game existed. At 75% off it was less than $2 so though I probably won't ever play this again I have zero buyers remorse.
Fury WarriorRecommendedafter 1.4h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews
This game takes me back to the GAMECUBE era when nintendo was peak. Still as fun as I remember and it works perfectly fine on windows 11 if you go and download the compatibility patch that is mentioned throughout the community/reviews columns.
NedlohRecommendedafter 24hAug 2026Read on Steam
bro I have no idea what I'm doing I'm out here commanding tiny plastic soldiers across a kitchen table like it's the Normandy landings and my toaster PC is already crying. The game runs at like 18 fps of pure childhood nostalgia while the fans sound like they're about to take off. I'm a nerd. I read the tooltips. I still accidentally delete my own base. "Sarge, we need more plastic!" Bro I don't even know where the...
ZonieldisRecommendedafter 2.1hAug 2026Read on Steam

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

No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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Army Men RTS scores 76/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/694500/army-men-rts
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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 Sep 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+21
Critics67
Players88
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 1,490 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperPandemic Studios
Publisher2K
GenreAction
Released2017
Players150Kowners, SteamSpy estimate