Sigma Theory: Global Cold War
Skip · Strategy · 2019
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 36, under the fair line, at $17.99.
- Cost per hour▼
- $4.28/hr
- Reviews▼
- 76% of 1,386
- Genre rank
- Top 36% Strategy
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 4.2h
- To 100%
- 15.1h 3.6x the story
- Achievements
- 38
Price and sales
- Sales
- 45 on record
- Typical cut
- 70% off
- Steam low
- $2.69 December 2024
- Sale every
- 46d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 2 now
- Cheaper than
- 14% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 65% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
76% start to 3% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
45 discounts in the 8 years on record, a median of 70 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 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 36 percent. It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 65 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Democracy 3 ($24.99, scores 39) beats it on value, while it beats Victoria 3 ($49.99, scores 27).
More about Sigma Theory: Global Cold War
Of the 344 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 5 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 54 percent of the 123 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.
4.2 hours to finish it, 15 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.6 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
What players say
This is a very niche genre with most games being a disappointment. This game is okay. I would recommend it to try if you want a spy/diplomatic strategy game. My main complaint is that not all things seem balance is what you can do. It can also feel a bit more like a puzzle than a strategy game.. I define puzzle in that there ends up being 1 clear way of solving something. Still.. i give a positive cause this genre...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
This is a unique game, nothing quite like this in the market. It is basically a board game. You play as a boss of secret organization that tasked you to help your chosen country to win the tech rush, basically whoever earn most point the fastest win while at the same time keeping a doomdays clock as high as possible. The game itself doesn't explain itself well and the tutorial is barebone, the first wall every...
TL;DR. Don't ever buy this game for its $18. If you REALLY want to try it out, you should get it at least 70% off. A scientist in my team decided to indulge in a side project to induce sapience in animals. She came back a few days later having died and uploaded her brain into a dog, which could be sent out as the best agent in the game. Another scientist came to me and demanded she get her performance heroin back. I...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
A Turn-based Strategy game in a futuristic global cold war from the award-winning creators of Out There. Recruit a squad of special agents and run your intel agency to secure the control of the singularity.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, NVIDIA GT 440 or AMD Radeon HD 5550 w/ 512 MB, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Sigma Theory: Global Cold War scores 36/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/716640/sigma-theory-global-cold-warReviews 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.