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Fantasy General

Strategic Simulations · SNEG · 2021-09-15

SteamGOG

Strategy

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

Releases: Mar 01, 1996 (DOS), Sep 16, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Fantasy General invites you to enter a world of heroes, swords, magic and beasts. You must lead your army into battle with the Shadowlord’s forces and defeat each of his lieutenants across varying terrain and battlefields.

95%
positive of 132 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
52/100
IGDB user rating (6 ratings)
30h
to beat · rushed 20h · completionist 40h
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$9.99
steam price (US)
Fantasy General is a fantasy computer wargame published by Strategic Simulations in 1996. Its structure was taken from the game Panzer General with some modifications to the base system. It was the third in the Five Star General series. It allows gaming against other human players by email. It was published on GOG.com in May 2015 with support for Windows, macOS, and Linux after GOG Ltd acquired the copyright to the title.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 31% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 38% of 13,509 Strategy games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.6k–5.9k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 132 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$4.99-50%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$9.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.19 at GOG (2019-06-21) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 67 of 72 observed days · $3.80 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
7720212026Week of 2021-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-10-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$9.99$1.192015-05-062026-10-112015-05-06 — best price $5.992016-03-15 — best price $5.992018-02-27 — best price $5.992018-12-13 — best price $1.492020-08-24 — best price $1.992021-11-24 — best price $4.012022-02-14 — best price $2.992022-07-25 — best price $2.392022-10-10 — best price $2.392022-12-12 — best price $2.392023-01-23 — best price $5.992023-03-23 — best price $5.992023-07-04 — best price $5.992023-09-12 — best price $5.992023-12-06 — best price $5.992024-02-03 — best price $5.992024-05-02 — best price $5.992024-07-22 — best price $5.992024-09-10 — best price $1.492024-10-25 — best price $5.992024-12-04 — best price $5.992025-01-31 — best price $5.992025-04-10 — best price $2.392025-06-10 — best price $2.392025-08-20 — best price $2.992025-10-07 — best price $2.992025-11-12 — best price $2.992026-01-06 — best price $2.992026-03-19 — best price $2.392026-05-20 — best price $5.992026-07-15 — best price $2.992026-09-15 — best price $4.992026-09-23 — best price $9.992026-10-01 — best price $3.992026-10-09 — best price $4.992026-10-11 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam CloudFamily Sharing

2 supported languages: English, French

Player tags

2DWarMagicClassicFantasyWargameStrategySoundtrackSingleplayerTurn-Based Combat

Census log

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

Recent updates

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