Super Robot Wars 30

Super Robot Wars 30

Worth it · RPG · 2021

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $59.99.

Length
53.9h
Value
$1.11/hr
Reviews
86% positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
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Length
53.9h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
164.9h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$1.11
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$59.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
86%
6,502 reviews, as of Sep 18
Metacritic
79
critic score
Players
750K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2021

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GT 320, 1 GB | AMD Radeon HD 6670, 1 GB, 15 GB of storage. Windows only.

30 years on, the battle for our world's future continues. Super Robot Wars is a tactical RPG that brings characters and robots from a variety of mecha anime together to battle their mutual foes.
Description from the Steam store page.

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$1.11/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Engagement45% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
MonetizationNone
No in-game purchases. Paid DLC exists and is not docked
Holding it back
Reviews86% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Length54 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach750K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
Refunds6 of 800 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

The value story

The lowest price on record is $14.99, set in April 2026. It has been discounted 33 times in the 5 years tracked here, typically at 67 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales.

On value it sits in the top 4 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Heroes of the Three Kingdoms ($0.99, scores 72) beats it on value, while it beats Fuga: Melodies of Steel ($39.99, scores 69).

Steam's global achievement data puts 45 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 6 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written January 2022 to September 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,162 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,321 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 80 percent of the 345 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.

53.9 hours to finish it, 165 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.1 times the campaign.

The drop-off

93% start to 45% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

Players

108 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 06:47 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

Recommended if you want to read some insane crossover fanfiction with decent-to-good characterization of your faves from one of the featured series. NOT recommended if you want a tactical RPG that is even remotely challenging or engaging and not just a dull, mindless slog.
Ember KeeltyNot recommendedafter 214h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
Done 150+ missions. Keeps crashing when about to select a mission in intermission menu. It's your job to fix this bug.
yseriahNot recommendedafter 100hAug 2026Read on Steam
Recommended As someone who has played a lot of Super Robot Wars over the years, Super Robot Wars 30 is both one of the most approachable entries in the series and one that shows some of its biggest strengths and weaknesses. The biggest change is the mission structure. Instead of following a mostly linear route, you're given a world map and can tackle many missions in the order you choose. Early on this feels...
biospark45Recommendedafter 106hJul 2026Read on Steam

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

Cite this score

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Super Robot Wars 30 scores 70/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/898750/super-robot-wars-30
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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 18, price as of Oct 1.

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Critics vs players+7
Critics
79
Players
86
Critics and players agree on this one.
Metacritic critics · 6,502 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperBandai Namco Forge Digitals Inc.
PublisherBandai Namco Entertainment
GenreRPG
Released2021
Achievements38