Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance
BANGER · Strategy · 2011
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $12.99.
- Length
- 18h
- Value
- $0.72/hr
- Reviews
- 97% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
The last days of man are at hand.. Two years after the Infinite War the once great warring nations now lie in ruins, and humanity’s hope for a brighter future is nothing but a bitter memory. A new, seemingly unstoppable enemy, supported by the zealots of The Order, now seeks to eradicate mankind: UEF, Aeon Loyalist, and Cybran alike.
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
It has never been cheaper than $2.59. That was August 2018. 82 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 80 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 7 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 76 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Supreme Commander 2 ($12.99, scores 75) and Supreme Commander ($12.99, scores 79).
$25.94 is where it would stop being a BANGER. Today it is $12.99.
Critics scored it 81. Players sit 16 points higher at 97 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
2 of the 519 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 552 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
15 years after release it still had 691 people in it at once.
Players
691 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
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One of the greatest RTS games ever made. The scale, strategic depth, and soundtrack are still unmatched after all these years. Also, for anyone who still loves Supreme Commander, the Kickstarter for its spiritual successor IS Sanctuary: Shattered Sun, and it is currently live. You'd better go fund it
Get this game and look for the SupCom:FAF community for patches, balance updates, mods, and multiplayer.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance scores 97/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/9420/supreme-commander-forged-allianceThe 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 3, price as of Sep 24.
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