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Act of War: High Treason

Eugen Systems · THQ Nordic · 2008-03-12

Steam

Action

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Mar 12, 2008 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The highly anticipated sequel to the critically acclaimed game Act of War: Direct Action picks up where the techno-thriller left off. On the eve of the U.S. Presidential elections, simultaneous terrorist attacks hit both candidates. Clues point to corrupt elements within the U.S.

Act of War: High Treason is an Action game released in 2008, priced at $2.99, with an estimated 50,000 .. 100,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (81% of 543 reviews).

21
playing now
81%
positive of 543 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
69/100
IGDB user rating (5 ratings)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
$2.99
steam price (US)

21 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 18:00 UTC (census sample)

Act of War: High Treason is an expansion pack for Act of War: Direct Action. It was developed by Eugen Systems and published by Atari. It was released in the PAL region in March 2006 and in North America on May 30, 2006.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 21 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 24 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity up 26% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 20% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 22k–43k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 543 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.74 at Steam (2017-06-22)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $2.99 · on sale 48 of 73 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
101020172026Week of 2017-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

2542026-09-15 03:00 — 7 players2026-09-16 11:00 — 10 players2026-09-17 19:00 — 16 players2026-09-19 02:00 — 12 players2026-09-20 10:00 — 15 players2026-09-21 18:00 — 16 players2026-09-23 01:00 — 5 players2026-09-24 09:00 — 9 players2026-09-25 16:00 — 23 players2026-09-27 00:00 — 11 players2026-09-28 07:00 — 7 players2026-09-29 15:00 — 13 players2026-09-30 22:00 — 13 players2026-10-02 06:00 — 9 players2026-10-03 13:00 — 19 players2026-10-04 21:00 — 13 players2026-10-06 05:00 — 5 players2026-10-07 12:00 — 11 players2026-10-08 20:00 — 11 players2026-10-10 03:00 — 4 players2026-10-11 11:00 — 25 players2026-10-12 19:00 — 16 players2026-10-14 02:00 — 4 players2026-10-14 18:00 — 21 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
151Jul 2012Aug 2026Jul 2012 — avg 2 · peak 7Dec 2012 — avg 2 · peak 9May 2013 — avg 3 · peak 9Oct 2013 — avg 2 · peak 9Mar 2014 — avg 2 · peak 10Aug 2014 — avg 3 · peak 9Jan 2015 — avg 1 · peak 7Jun 2015 — avg 9 · peak 26Nov 2015 — avg 7 · peak 21Apr 2016 — avg 8 · peak 19Sep 2016 — avg 8 · peak 24Feb 2017 — avg 8 · peak 27Jul 2017 — avg 9 · peak 23Dec 2017 — avg 11 · peak 28May 2018 — avg 8 · peak 21Oct 2018 — avg 9 · peak 23Mar 2019 — avg 10 · peak 26Aug 2019 — avg 10 · peak 23Jan 2020 — avg 11 · peak 29Jun 2020 — avg 10 · peak 25Nov 2020 — avg 11 · peak 28Apr 2021 — avg 11 · peak 32Sep 2021 — avg 10 · peak 28Feb 2022 — avg 13 · peak 27Jul 2022 — avg 11 · peak 25Dec 2022 — avg 10 · peak 24May 2023 — avg 11 · peak 28Oct 2023 — avg 11 · peak 26Mar 2024 — avg 12 · peak 29Aug 2024 — avg 12 · peak 26Jan 2025 — avg 11 · peak 27Jun 2025 — avg 12 · peak 33Nov 2025 — avg 11 · peak 26Apr 2026 — avg 11 · peak 26Aug 2026 — avg 11 · peak 27
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$9.99$0.712015-01-012026-08-212015-01-01 — best price $9.952015-11-09 — best price $2.002016-04-07 — best price $2.002016-12-15 — best price $1.502017-06-22 — best price $0.742017-12-11 — best price $1.202018-09-24 — best price $0.972019-01-03 — best price $2.992019-06-06 — best price $1.202019-09-18 — best price $1.192020-01-04 — best price $2.992020-04-08 — best price $1.192020-07-26 — best price $0.932021-01-05 — best price $2.992021-05-18 — best price $2.992021-09-11 — best price $2.992022-01-05 — best price $2.992022-04-29 — best price $0.922022-08-14 — best price $0.892022-11-23 — best price $1.192023-02-06 — best price $2.402023-05-19 — best price $1.192023-08-11 — best price $2.992023-12-11 — best price $1.192024-03-26 — best price $0.912024-07-13 — best price $2.992024-11-22 — best price $1.202025-01-27 — best price $2.992025-05-28 — best price $2.992025-09-23 — best price $1.192025-12-19 — best price $1.002026-04-23 — best price $1.152026-08-13 — best price $1.192026-08-21 — best price $2.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

4362026-05-30 — 10 pageviews2026-06-03 — 25 pageviews2026-06-07 — 13 pageviews2026-06-11 — 36 pageviews2026-06-15 — 30 pageviews2026-06-19 — 18 pageviews2026-06-23 — 22 pageviews2026-06-27 — 17 pageviews2026-07-01 — 20 pageviews2026-07-05 — 13 pageviews2026-07-09 — 23 pageviews2026-07-13 — 10 pageviews2026-07-17 — 24 pageviews2026-07-21 — 6 pageviews2026-07-25 — 12 pageviews2026-07-29 — 16 pageviews2026-08-02 — 15 pageviews2026-08-06 — 7 pageviews2026-08-10 — 23 pageviews2026-08-14 — 14 pageviews2026-08-18 — 15 pageviews2026-08-22 — 17 pageviews2026-08-26 — 29 pageviews2026-08-30 — 14 pageviews2026-09-03 — 16 pageviews2026-09-07 — 17 pageviews2026-09-11 — 18 pageviews2026-09-15 — 16 pageviews2026-09-19 — 15 pageviews2026-09-23 — 6 pageviews2026-09-27 — 14 pageviews2026-10-01 — 13 pageviews2026-10-05 — 12 pageviews2026-10-09 — 14 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

RTSGoreActionMilitaryStrategy

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Players also track

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Similarity via IGDB.

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