Valiant Hearts: The Great War™ / Soldats Inconnus : Mémoires de la Grande Guerre™ (Steam Game) Steam logo

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Valiant Hearts : The Great War is the story of 4 crossed destinies and a broken love in a world torn apart. Dive into a 2D animated comic book adventure, mixing exploration, action and puzzles. Lost in the middle of the trenches, play as each of the 4 strangers, relive the War and help a young German soldier find his love.

Release DateJun 25, 2014
Price$ 14.99  Top 15%
Steam Rating (Steam Purchases / All)95.5% (overwhelmingly positive) Top 10% / 95.6%  Top 10%
Steam DB Rating (Steam Purchases / All)93.2% Top 1% / 93.4%  Top 1%
Reviews (Steam Purchases / All)21.3K  Top 2% / 24.2K  Top 2%
Curators340 reviews  Top 2%
Median Play Time8.2 hours  Top 20%
Play Time per Dollar33 minutes
Followers55.1K  Top 3%
Owners± 963.7K  Top 3%
Copies Sold± 737.1K  Top 3%
Gross Revenue ($)± 4.4M  Top 4%

Rating and Reviews (Monthly)
  

Chart showing the monthly evolution of Valiant Hearts: The Great War™ / Soldats Inconnus : Mémoires de la Grande Guerre™ steam rating, positive and negative reviews.

This chart shows Valiant Hearts: The Great War™ / Soldats Inconnus : Mémoires de la Grande Guerre™'s Steam rating and reviews from June 2014 to December 2023. Steam's rating is relatively stable, varying from 98.4% (June 2014) to 95.5% (October 2016).

With 24.2K reviews Top 2%, Valiant Hearts: The Great War™ / Soldats Inconnus : Mémoires de la Grande Guerre™ is definitely a major AAA level success. The chart is compatible with a long tailed distribution, which suggests there was a good visibility at launch but that it was not followed by significant updates or discounts.

Review Languages
 

Donut graph showing review languages for Valiant Hearts: The Great War™ / Soldats Inconnus : Mémoires de la Grande Guerre™ and the proportion of players they represent.

This donut chart displays the languages of Valiant Hearts: The Great War™ / Soldats Inconnus : Mémoires de la Grande Guerre™'s reviewers. The most popular language is English (30%), followed by Russian (22%). There is a nice diversity in the reviews, with 28 languages represented. The game is available in 10 languages, which is great.

Time Played

Chart displaying Valiant Hearts: The Great War™ / Soldats Inconnus : Mémoires de la Grande Guerre™ percentiles of time played for positive, negative, and early access reviews.

This chart displays the time played in Valiant Hearts: The Great War™ / Soldats Inconnus : Mémoires de la Grande Guerre™ depending if the reviewer left a positive or a negative review. The time in game is acceptable, with 12 hours in the 80th percentile.

The negative reviews play time is 1.6 times lower than the positive reviews median play time. A high negative review play time (median : 5 hours) could mean that Valiant Hearts: The Great War™ / Soldats Inconnus : Mémoires de la Grande Guerre™ crashes after a while or becomes too repetitive or difficult in the end. The Players' feedback section might help understanding the issue.

Players' Feedback

Game's StrengthsGame's Weaknesses
  • All narration is performed with feeling enough to convince the listener
  • Music is exceptional
  • 'Facts' pages about the war can be accessed via the main menu
  • Hints are available to the player
  • Refrshingly new perspectives, objectives, and means to progress the story
  • Myriad collectibles can be collected throughout the adventure
  • Frequent respawns
  • Puzzles can often be challenging
  • Plot sports a depth of emotion
  • There are a series of repeating minigames that break up the pace
  • This title requires uPlay
  • This title requires uPlay
  • This title requires uPlay
  • The comic-like adventure and sometimes wacky minigames are considered inappropriate for the solemn topic
  • The respawn system undermines the consequentiality of mistakes or deaths
  • The placement of some collectibles distracts players and interrupts the flow of emotions
  • The Healing mini-game is not nearly as satisfying as other puzzles
  • The boss fights and the rare tonal switches are atrocious
  • George, a British pilot, is featured only briefly instead of making his pilot skill relevant to the gameplay

These advantages and disadvantages are not meant to provide a fair assessment of the game, but to help developers identify potential improvements. The game's 95.5% rating  Top 10% should be factored in during their evaluation.

Take into account that list was generated using AI on a small sample of Valiant Hearts: The Great War™ / Soldats Inconnus : Mémoires de la Grande Guerre™'s Steam review data, it is not meant to be exhaustive. You don't always need to solve every issue. What some players hate might be what your fanbase loves.

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