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A Third-Person modern military Shooter designed to challenge players' morality by putting them in the middle of unspeakable situations.

Release DateJun 25, 2012
Price$ 29.99  Top 3%
Steam Rating (Steam Purchases / All)93.8% (very positive) Top 15% / 93.2%  Top 15%
Steam DB Rating (Steam Purchases / All)91.8% Top 2% / 91.5%  Top 2%
Reviews (Steam Purchases / All)26.9K  Top 2% / 52.5K  Top 1%
Curators765 reviews  Top 1%
Median Play Time7.8 hours  Top 20%
Play Time per Dollar16 minutes  Bottom 30%
Followers42.9K  Top 3%
Owners± 4.6M  Top 1%
Copies Sold± 1.6M  Top 2%
Gross Revenue ($)± 15.4M  Top 2%

Rating and Reviews (Monthly)
  

Chart showing the monthly evolution of Spec Ops: The Line steam rating, positive and negative reviews.

This graph shows Spec Ops: The Line's Steam rating and reviews between June 2012 and December 2023. Steam's rating oscillates between 92.7% (October 2019) and 98.7% (September 2012).

With 52.5K reviews Top 1%, Spec Ops: The Line is definitely a major AAA level success. Peaks in the chart suggest that major updates or discounts happened.

Review Languages
 

Donut graph showing review languages for Spec Ops: The Line and the proportion of players they represent.

This doughnut chart shows Spec Ops: The Line's review languages. The most popular language is English (49%), followed by Russian (15%). There is a healthy diversity in the review languages, with 28 different languages represented. The game is available in 6 languages. Unless the game has a lot of dialogues, translating is usually not a lot of work compared to completing a game, therefore adding more translations is generally recommended.

Time Played

Chart displaying Spec Ops: The Line percentiles of time played for positive, negative, and early access reviews.

This chart displays the time players have spent in Spec Ops: The Line depending if the reviewer left a positive or a negative review. The time in game is acceptable, with 14 hours in the 80th percentile.

The median play time for the negative reviews is 1.6 times less than the median for positive reviews. A high negative review play time (median : 5 hours) could mean that Spec Ops: The Line crashes after a while or becomes too repetitive or difficult in the end. You could check if there is an explanation in the Players' feedback section.

Players' Feedback

Game's StrengthsGame's Weaknesses
  • Compelling story
  • Realistic soldier story
  • Atmosphere is top notch
  • Voice acting is solid
  • Music and sounds are good
  • Represents the horrors of war well
  • Alternate endings available
  • Major strong points are the story and the atmosphere
  • Solid combat
  • Pacing of the story keeps you intrigued
  • Poor graphics
  • Very basic gameplay
  • Bland shooting mechanics
  • Limited variety of squad commands, grenades, or guns
  • Cheesy lines
  • Some choices don't have a major effect on the progression of the game
  • Not much to talk about in terms of gameplay
  • An incomplete PC ported controls
  • Controller button hint appear while playing on keyboard mouse
  • It's not a realistic game

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 score of 93.8%  Top 15% should be considered while evaluating them.

Please take this list with a grain of salt, as this is an AI generated list based on a small sample of Spec Ops: The Line's review data provided by Steam. You don't always need to solve every issue. What some players hate might be what your fanbase loves.

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