Supreme Commander
Worth it · Strategy · 2011
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 80% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$12.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$2.5980% offWorth it
- Cost per hourS
- $0.69/hr
- Reviews▼
- 89% of 3,181
- Critics
- 86 players 3 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 2% Strategy
Holding it back: Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.59 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 18.7h
- To 100%
- 50.6h 2.7x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 86 on record
- Typical cut
- 80% off
- Steam low
- $2.59 August 2018
- Sale every
- 45d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 28 now
- Cheaper than
- 23% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 93% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 86 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 80 percent, about 6 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 2 percent. It is pricier than 77 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance ($12.99, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats Supreme Commander 2 ($12.99, scores 75).
More about Supreme Commander
This site sampled 464 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 3 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 66 percent of the 270 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
18.7 hours to finish it, 51 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.7 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
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
Didn't play this game for the longest time. I don't even remember how long since I've bought it, but I've finally played it. I surprisingly like Supreme Commander more than total annihilation. I think there's a lot more resources you can play with compared to TA (TA really didn't want to give you any metal sometimes), the inclusion of an attack move makes larger battles a lot more manageable, and all 3 land, sea...
2 more reviews
Many many hours sunk into supcom. It's a bit dated now but it and it's newer version are still played competitively to this day. Despite it's age, the graphics still hold up pretty well but where it really shines is in large scale combat. It can be quite difficult to hit the unit limit it's that high and the variety of the different kinds of units really sets it out from the pack. If you're looking at this review in...
I highly recommend this game if you're a fan of massive RTS games, like the amazing OG Total Annihilation!
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
For a thousand years, three opposing forces have waged war for what they believe is true. There can be no room for compromise: their way is the only way. Dubbed The Infinite War, this devastating conflict has taken its toll on a once-peaceful galaxy and has only served to deepen the hatred between the factions.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Supreme Commander scores 79/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/9350/supreme-commanderReviews 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.