The Bluecoats: North & South
Skip · Shooter · 2020
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 6, under the fair line, at $14.99.
- Length
- 2h 3h to 100%
- Value
- $7.50/hr
- Reviews
- 60% of 249 positive
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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
About the game
Reunite with Sergeant Cornelius M. Chesterfield and Corporal Blutch in this remastered game that combines turn-based strategy and real-time action. This new version will delight fans of the original game, initially released on the Amiga at the end of the 1980s!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GTX 750 or equivalent, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $2.99, set in June 2026. It has been discounted 5 times in the 6 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 30 percent, about 7 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 60 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 87 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Ultimate General: Civil War ($29.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats Company of Heroes 3 ($59.99, scores 3).
The drop-off
52% start to 4% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 17, 12:57 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
the only problem with the game is that they haven't released a second one. I love the art style and the game play.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Well worth the $3 I paid for it on sale. Playing with controllers in local multiplayer was a great experience. The battles look better with slightly improved mechanics from the NES port I grew up with. I was never a fan of the frenetic side-scrolling mini-games they replaced, so I actually see the FPS parts as an improvement. With a controller they seemed quite fun, especially the fort battles that include bots.
Pros: ✅ Achievements. Cons: ❌ Poor mouse aiming and overall feel during first person battles. ❌ There are only train and fortress battles in first person mode and the top down battles are extremely easy and can be exploited because the enemy AI is very poor. ❌ The game is very short with no real strategy involved. Each round you simply rush your units to conquer more land, and due to the easy gameplay, even larger...
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Cite this score
The Bluecoats: North & South scores 6/100 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/963220/the-bluecoats-north-southReviews 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 16. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.