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Battlestations: Midway is an immense action game that drops players into massive air, sea, and undersea battles from Pearl Harbor to the Battle of Midway.

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Release DateMar 15, 2007
Price$ 6.99
Steam Rating (Steam Purchases / All)77.8% (mostly positive) / 77.7%
Steam DB Rating (Steam Purchases / All)74% / 74.1%
Reviews (Steam Purchases / All)752  Top 15% / 849  Top 15%
Curators21 reviews  Top 30%
Median Play Time6.5 hours  Top 25%
Play Time per Dollar56 minutes  Top 25%
Followers3.2K  Top 20%
Owners± 498.6K  Top 5%
Copies Sold± 52K  Top 15%
Gross Revenue ($)± 144K  Top 20%

Rating and Reviews (Monthly)
  

Chart showing the monthly evolution of Battlestations: Midway steam rating, positive and negative reviews.

This graph shows Battlestations: Midway's Steam rating and reviews between December 2010 and December 2023. Steam's rating oscillates between 66.6% (July 2013) and 83.7% (July 2014).

The 849 reviews Top 15% suggest that Battlestations: Midway might be an indie success or even a small AAA success.

Review Languages
 

Donut graph showing review languages for Battlestations: Midway and the proportion of players they represent.

This doughnut chart shows Battlestations: Midway's review languages. The most popular language is English (53%), followed by Russian (8%). There is a healthy diversity in the review languages, with 24 different languages represented. The game is available in 5 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 Battlestations: Midway percentiles of time played for positive, negative, and early access reviews.

This chart displays the time players have spent in Battlestations: Midway depending if the reviewer left a positive or a negative review. The time played is adequate, reaching 18 hours in the 80th percentile.

The negative reviews play time is 7.9 times lower than the positive reviews median play time. When the negative review time is low (median : 70 minutes), it can be a sign that the game crashes on some systems or that players misunderstood the nature of the game (Does the Steam page clearly explain it, with gifs and a gameplay video ?). It can also mean that some players were somehow offended by Battlestations: Midway and decided to review it and get a refund under 2 hours. You could check if there is an explanation in the Players' feedback section.

Players' Feedback

Game's StrengthsGame's Weaknesses
  • + Great missions with a good variety of goals
  • + You can take control of many individual pieces: planes and ships
  • + You can manage the entire fleet from the map
  • + The game offers 3 skill levels for the missions
  • + Good length of the campaign
  • + Graphics are good despite age
  • + Multiplayer available
  • + Combat is fun
  • + Switching between controlling planes, ships and submarines is fun
  • + Actual combat is pretty fun
  • - Awful and questionable controls
  • - Visuals are dated and bad looking
  • - Difficulty spikes in gameplay
  • - Extreme learning curve
  • - Gameplay speed is way too slow
  • - Campaign is short and rather dull
  • - Videos are terrible on a variety of levels
  • - Plane maneuverability is lacking
  • - Some control screens just aren't intuitive
  • - Multiplayer doesn't work due to GameSpy shutdown

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 77.8% 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 Battlestations: Midway'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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