Operation Thunderstorm
Skip · Shooter · 2018
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $4.99.
- Length
- 2h
- Value
- $2.50/hr
- Reviews
- 77% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The year is 1942. The British government decides to launch one of the most risky operations of World War II. The targets are the most important figures of the Third Reich. After several months of research, MI6 chose three people: the chances of eliminating them are slim to nothing.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $0.99, set in May 2019. It has been discounted 71 times in the 8 years tracked here, typically at 60 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 9 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 43 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 81 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Call of Duty: United Offensive ($19.99, scores 53) beats it on value, while it beats Battlefield™ V ($4.99, scores 27).
This site sampled 295 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 68 percent of the 155 reviews written there were positive, against 77 percent overall, and those are 40 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 2 hours; clearing it takes 4, which is 2.0 times the campaign.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Operation Thunderstorm scores 45/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/837590/operation-thunderstormThe 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 2, price as of Sep 24.
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