Frontlines™: Fuel of War™
Skip · Shooter · 2008
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 19, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 5.3h 10.1h to 100%
- Value
- $3.77/hr
- Reviews
- 69% of 1,084 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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How to read this
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About the game
Frontlines™: Fuel of War™ is an open-world First Person Shooter set on the frontlines of tomorrow. In a world ravaged by a global energy crisis, environmental decay, and economic depression, players assume the role of an elite soldier in the Western Coalition Army on an epic crusade against the Red Star Alliance to control the last of...
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 768 MB of memory, nVidia 6800GT (SM3) or ATI X800XT (SM2) w/ Latest applicable video drivers, 12 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
72 discounts in the 13 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 82 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 75 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Battlefield 4™ ($39.99, scores 34) beats it on value, while it beats Homefront®: The Revolution ($19.99, scores 8).
More about Frontlines™: Fuel of War™
None of the 342 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 44 percent of the 250 reviews written there were positive, against 69 percent overall, and those are 29 percent of everything written about it.
What players say
Brings back old memories. But yeah game is too damn short. Would recommend on sale.
2 more reviews
Frontlines: Fuel of War is a large-scale military first-person shooter developed by Kaos Studios and published by THQ. Released during a period crowded with modern warfare shooters, the game sought to separate itself from competitors through its ambitious depiction of a near-future global conflict driven by dwindling energy resources. Rather than focusing solely on traditional military rivalries, the game imagines a...
It actually isn't bad. Even back when this was released, you know it wouldn't have avoided the bargain bin for too long. Go into it with that mindset. You're in Blockbuster, kind of broke, it's 4.99... from that starting point, it's fun. It does have a lot of issues. It's a sort of open-world adjacent thing where you're dumped in a large open level with the option to tackle objectives in any order, but it leaves the...
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Cite this score
Frontlines™: Fuel of War™ scores 19/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/9460/frontlines-fuel-of-warReviews 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 30, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.