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Sequel to the highly successful Operation Flashpoint, ARMA: Combat Operations is a first person tactical military shooter on the PC with large elements of realism and simulation. This game features a blend of large-scale military conflict spread across large areas alongside the more close quartered battles.

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Release DateMar 12, 2008
Price$ 7.99
Steam Rating (Steam Purchases / All)70% (mostly positive) Bottom 35% / 69.8%  Bottom 35%
Steam DB Rating (Steam Purchases / All)66.1% / 66.1%
Reviews (Steam Purchases / All)230  Top 30% / 258  Top 30%
Curators21 reviews  Top 30%
Median Play Time4.2 hours
Play Time per Dollar32 minutes
Followers1K 
Owners± 51.9K  Top 25%
Copies Sold± 27.5K  Top 20%
Gross Revenue ($)± 92.5K  Top 25%

Rating and Reviews (Monthly)
  

Chart showing the monthly evolution of ARMA: Combat Operations steam rating, positive and negative reviews.

Here you can see ARMA: Combat Operations's Steam rating and reviews between November 2010 and November 2023. Steam's rating is varying from 95.4% (November 2013) to 65.8% (April 2019).

The 258 reviews Top 25% suggest that ARMA: Combat Operations might be a reasonable indie success. Peaks in the chart suggest that major updates or discounts happened.

Review Languages
 

Donut graph showing review languages for ARMA: Combat Operations and the proportion of players they represent.

This donut graph displays the languages of ARMA: Combat Operations's Steam reviews. The most popular language is English (52%), followed by Russian (14%). The player's languages are well diversified, with 17 different languages appearing in the reviews. The game has been translated in only one language (English), it's always good to have more translations to access other markets.

Time Played

Chart displaying ARMA: Combat Operations percentiles of time played for positive, negative, and early access reviews.

This chart displays the time played in ARMA: Combat Operations, showing a comparison between positive and negative reviews. The time in game is not bad at all, with 26 hours in the 80th percentile.

The negative reviews play time is 20 times lower than the positive reviews median play time. A low negative review time (median : 31 minutes) can mean that the game crashes on some systems or that the type of gameplay was not completely clear to the players (Is the game unmistakably explained on the Steam Store ?). It is also possible that players were otherwise displeased by ARMA: Combat Operations and decided to review it and get a refund under 2 hours. The Players' feedback section might help understanding the issue.

Players' Feedback

Game's StrengthsGame's Weaknesses
  • improvement of combined arms warfare
  • strong campaign
  • unique tree structure
  • good combat
  • 3 helpful NPCs
  • easy aiming
  • great map
  • realistic
  • inefficient and boring
  • lack of information
  • clunky animation
  • missing dialogue
  • problematic mapping
  • unclear questline
  • one-shot deaths
  • broken game
  • poor AI
  • BF2 knockoff

It's important to understand that this list of positives and negatives is not an unbiased evaluation of the game. Its purpose is to support developers in understanding what their players want. The game's rating of 70%  Bottom 35% should be taken into account when assessing them.

Take into account that list was generated using AI on a small sample of ARMA: Combat Operations's Steam review data, it is not meant to be exhaustive. Moreover, be aware that problems aren't always meant to be solved. Communicating clearly and managing the player's expectations is important too!

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