Iron Marines
Fair · Action · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $5.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 9.5h
- Value
- $0.63/hr
- Reviews
- 78% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, OpenGL 3.0 compliant with 512MB of video RAM., 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Real-time strategy battles in amazing sci-fi worlds! Command brave soldiers, mighty mechas and powerful aliens to face the greatest challenges in hostile alien worlds. The galaxy needs you!
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
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $4.49. That was November 2019. It has been discounted 57 times in the 7 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales.
Value puts it in the top 8 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 85 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 74 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Infested Planet ($14.99, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats Revenge of the Titans ($14.99, scores 39).
Steam's global achievement data puts 39 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 599 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 4 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 62 percent of the 234 reviews written there were positive, against 78 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.
9.5 hours to finish it, 22 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.3 times the campaign.
The drop-off
92% start to 39% finishSteam 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
30 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 08:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Mobile: 9/10 ; PC: 7.5/10 Am I Fighting the Enemy, or Fighting Your UI? Sometimes, the biggest enemy in Iron Marines isn't the aliens. It's the control system. Once your units start piling up and the screen fills with effects, selecting the squad you actually want becomes unnecessarily frustrating. Move everyone at once, and your formation turns into a complete mess-frontliners and fragile ranged units all thrown...
A light RTS that invokes the feeling of more storied RTS's. Only thing lacking is a final top tier unit that looks cool, the mechs are move on the goofy side.
Excellent game, underrated in some ways. The single issue is that the port is not very good, imo. Аiming and targeting squads is not always accurate. I don't remember struggling with this problem on mobile.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Iron Marines scores 56/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/931280/iron-marinesReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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