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Jagged Alliance - Back in Action cover art

Jagged Alliance - Back in Action

Coreplay GmbH · THQ Nordic · 2012-02-08

Steam

RPGSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Feb 08, 2012 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Feb 14, 2014 (Mac), Feb 14, 2014 (Linux)

A contemporary remake of the much-loved series of turn-based mercenary-themed strategy games.

Jagged Alliance - Back in Action is an RPG, Simulation, and Strategy game released in 2012, priced at $19.99, with an estimated 200,000 .. 500,000 owners and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (73% of 1772 reviews).

27
playing now
73%
positive of 1.8k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
64/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
70/100
IGDB user rating (7 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$19.99
steam price (US)

27 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 13:00 UTC (census sample)

Jagged Alliance: Back in Action is a real-time tactics video game developed by Coreplay and published by bitComposer and Kalypso Media for the PC in February 2012. It is a remake of the 1999 Jagged Alliance 2, the third installment in the Jagged Alliance series. An expansion pack, Jagged Alliance: Crossfire, was released August 2012.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 27 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 24 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity up 9% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 13% of 13,925 RPG games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-30

Estimated sales: 71k–142k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,772 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.49 at MacGameStore (2026-07-28) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 44 of 71 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
171720172026Week of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 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: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

44102026-09-15 14:00 — 21 players2026-09-16 22:00 — 10 players2026-09-18 06:00 — 14 players2026-09-19 13:00 — 25 players2026-09-20 21:00 — 23 players2026-09-22 05:00 — 12 players2026-09-23 12:00 — 25 players2026-09-24 20:00 — 27 players2026-09-26 03:00 — 14 players2026-09-27 11:00 — 29 players2026-09-28 18:00 — 25 players2026-09-30 02:00 — 17 players2026-10-01 09:00 — 25 players2026-10-02 17:00 — 30 players2026-10-04 01:00 — 18 players2026-10-05 08:00 — 22 players2026-10-06 16:00 — 27 players2026-10-07 23:00 — 15 players2026-10-09 07:00 — 15 players2026-10-10 14:00 — 36 players2026-10-11 22:00 — 18 players2026-10-13 06:00 — 23 players2026-10-14 13:00 — 27 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
49020Jul 2012Aug 2026Jul 2012 — avg 490 · peak 1,142Dec 2012 — avg 230 · peak 454May 2013 — avg 223 · peak 571Oct 2013 — avg 211 · peak 504Mar 2014 — avg 190 · peak 553Aug 2014 — avg 138 · peak 290Jan 2015 — avg 128 · peak 269Jun 2015 — avg 91 · peak 200Nov 2015 — avg 85 · peak 192Apr 2016 — avg 76 · peak 173Sep 2016 — avg 76 · peak 168Feb 2017 — avg 80 · peak 180Jul 2017 — avg 75 · peak 164Dec 2017 — avg 72 · peak 148May 2018 — avg 58 · peak 113Oct 2018 — avg 65 · peak 147Mar 2019 — avg 57 · peak 123Aug 2019 — avg 53 · peak 106Jan 2020 — avg 50 · peak 104Jun 2020 — avg 49 · peak 95Nov 2020 — avg 47 · peak 105Apr 2021 — avg 47 · peak 106Sep 2021 — avg 47 · peak 122Feb 2022 — avg 46 · peak 97Jul 2022 — avg 41 · peak 88Dec 2022 — avg 43 · peak 93May 2023 — avg 57 · peak 119Oct 2023 — avg 34 · peak 90Mar 2024 — avg 30 · peak 60Aug 2024 — avg 24 · peak 50Jan 2025 — avg 31 · peak 68Jun 2025 — avg 21 · peak 46Nov 2025 — avg 24 · peak 45Apr 2026 — avg 23 · peak 44Aug 2026 — avg 22 · peak 42
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$33.61$2.492015-01-012026-08-212015-01-01 — best price $5.632015-04-09 — best price $19.672015-07-07 — best price $27.892015-09-14 — best price $29.992016-01-29 — best price $29.992016-06-27 — best price $29.992016-09-08 — best price $4.992017-04-11 — best price $16.992017-08-14 — best price $4.882017-12-15 — best price $5.042018-07-03 — best price $19.992018-10-22 — best price $4.912019-02-11 — best price $19.992019-06-01 — best price $19.992019-09-14 — best price $19.992019-12-04 — best price $19.992020-02-08 — best price $15.452020-05-11 — best price $3.952020-08-19 — best price $19.992021-02-15 — best price $19.992021-07-03 — best price $4.992021-10-09 — best price $16.532022-01-07 — best price $19.992022-05-02 — best price $14.712022-08-22 — best price $19.992022-12-07 — best price $16.112023-03-06 — best price $4.992023-07-13 — best price $19.992023-10-02 — best price $19.992024-01-08 — best price $16.192024-05-10 — best price $5.002024-08-15 — best price $19.992024-12-19 — best price $4.992025-04-04 — best price $3.192025-07-18 — best price $2.492025-11-20 — best price $4.252026-02-25 — best price $19.992026-06-25 — best price $4.992026-08-21 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2442026-05-30 — 10 pageviews2026-06-03 — 8 pageviews2026-06-07 — 14 pageviews2026-06-11 — 10 pageviews2026-06-15 — 15 pageviews2026-06-19 — 13 pageviews2026-06-23 — 7 pageviews2026-06-27 — 12 pageviews2026-07-01 — 15 pageviews2026-07-05 — 18 pageviews2026-07-09 — 12 pageviews2026-07-13 — 9 pageviews2026-07-17 — 14 pageviews2026-07-21 — 13 pageviews2026-07-25 — 12 pageviews2026-07-29 — 17 pageviews2026-08-02 — 14 pageviews2026-08-06 — 4 pageviews2026-08-10 — 13 pageviews2026-08-14 — 14 pageviews2026-08-18 — 4 pageviews2026-08-22 — 18 pageviews2026-08-26 — 12 pageviews2026-08-30 — 21 pageviews2026-09-03 — 12 pageviews2026-09-07 — 18 pageviews2026-09-11 — 4 pageviews2026-09-15 — 12 pageviews2026-09-19 — 6 pageviews2026-09-23 — 8 pageviews2026-09-27 — 18 pageviews2026-10-01 — 15 pageviews2026-10-05 — 10 pageviews2026-10-08 — 6 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
70.3%
earned "Jack the Ripper"
14.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsStatsFamily Sharing6 DLC

8 supported languages: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Polish, Czech

Post-launch support: 6 DLC released, first 2012-02-09, latest 2013-04-19 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)4,9991%60

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

RPGRTSActionRemakeMilitaryStrategyTacticalSimulationTurn-BasedSingleplayer

Census log

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

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