Ostalgie: The Berlin Wall
Worth it · Strategy · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $5.99.
- Length
- 2.7h 200h to 100%
- Value
- $2.22/hr
- Reviews
- 93% of 729 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 1 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
About the game
The confrontation between the East and the West is coming to an end, but not between East and West Germany. The old party leaders are still sitting in their offices, not changing anything and waiting for exclamations from Moscow. But their end is close – Gorbachev and Kohl have already decided...
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, DX10 (shader model 4.0) or DX11 with feature level 9.3 capabilities, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
Across all 27 discounts in the 9 years tracked, the median cut is 55 percent, about 6 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 96 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Age of History II ($5.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Crisis in the Kremlin ($4.99, scores 67).
More about Ostalgie: The Berlin Wall
Steam's global achievement data puts under 1 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 2.7-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 330 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026.
Finishing takes 2.7 hours; clearing it takes 200, which is 74 times the campaign.
The drop-off
12% start to <1% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 13, 07:56 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
What an absolute blast of a game with endless replayability! Of course, an advanced degree in history and political science wouldn't hurt when playing, but once you finally get the core concepts down, it becomes a fantastic sim!!
2 more reviews
The LARP potential here is huge. HOI4 doesn't have a real cold war mod that actually works, so this is the next best thing, and it fits its niche very well. Example: in my last game I created Third Positionist Albania, assassinated Deng, supported Saddam, turned the PLA on the people probably 3-4 times, created my own military and economic pacts to replace the CMEA and Warsaw Pact, established Stalinist Romania &...
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Cite this score
Ostalgie: The Berlin Wall scores 81/100 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/774091/ostalgie-the-berlin-wallReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.