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Blood of Steel vs Foxhole

Blood of Steel is a mmorpg RPG game from YC Games (2020) while Foxhole is a mmorpg open-world game from Siege Camp (2022).

Blood of Steel

2020 · YC Games

6.4GamingPickz Score

Free

Steam: Mostly Positive

Foxhole

2022 · Siege Camp

7.2GamingPickz Score

$29.99

Steam: Mostly Positive

What each one is

Steam files Blood of Steel under Mmorpg and RPG. In contrast, it files Foxhole under Mmorpg and Open-World.

Blood of Steel

"Blood of Steel" is a fair competitive multiplayer online game. You will ride into a battlefield where thousands clash, employing unique four-directional slashing maneuvers and strategic formations to defeat your opponents, experiencing the charm of warfare in the age of cold weapons!

Description from its Steam store page

Foxhole

Foxhole is a massively multiplayer game where thousands of players shape the outcome of a persistent online war. Every individual soldier is a player that contributes to the war effort through logistics, base building, reconnaissance, combat, and more.

Description from its Steam store page

At a glance

Blood of SteelFoxhole
GamingPickz Score6.4/107.2/10
Steam ratingMostly Positive (75%, 6,901)Mostly Positive (79%, 52,962)
Critic aggregateNo aggregateNo aggregate
PriceFree$29.99
Install size60 GB20 GB
Steam Deckunsupportedplayable
Released20202022
DeveloperYC GamesSiege Camp

Prices and Steam ratings are read live and move over time.

Blood of Steel vs Foxhole, point by point

Each facet side by side. A round is marked won only where a figure settles it; feel and "which is better" carry no mark, because no number we hold decides them.

  1. Genre and premise

    Blood of SteelMmorpg RPG game
    FoxholeMmorpg open-world game

    What each is filed as. Each game describes itself in full above; we do not judge a premise.

  2. How it plays

    Blood of SteelHack and Slash, RPG, Medieval
    FoxholeMassively Multiplayer, Wargame, Military

    The tags players apply most, in order of votes. A read on feel, not a verdict.

  3. Reception

    Blood of SteelScore 6.4 · 75% on Steam
    FoxholeScore 7.2 · 79% on Steam

    The GamingPickz Score is a composite of player sentiment, critics and popularity, computed the same way for every game.

  4. Content and scale

    Blood of Steel6,901 reviews · 2 add-ons · 60 GB
    Foxhole52,962 reviews · 1 add-on · 20 GB

    Reach and footprint, not quality: more reviews or a bigger install is not a better game.

  5. Price

    Blood of SteelFree
    Foxhole$29.99

    Read live from Steam and subject to change.

  6. On a Steam Deck

    Blood of SteelUnsupported
    FoxholePlayable

    Valve's own Deck compatibility rating.

Foxhole takes 2 of the marked rounds to 1. That is only what a number can decide, not which you will enjoy more.

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01000100PlayersPopularity

Players. The share of Steam reviews marked positive, pulled toward the catalogue average in proportion to how few reviews stand behind it. A game with 200 reviews moves a long way toward the average; one with 200,000 barely moves at all. Without this a title sitting at 100 percent on nine reviews outranks Half-Life 2 at 98 percent on 278,000.

Popularity. A blend of two things that are not the same. Audience is how many people wrote a Steam review, which is a floor on how many played it. Reach is how many language editions of Wikipedia document the game, which is cultural footprint rather than sales. A game can score high on one and low on the other: a huge free-to-play title has audience without reach, and a landmark console exclusive has reach without a Steam audience at all. Where both exist they are averaged; where only one does, that one carries it.

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Which to pick, by what you want

  • The higher-rated of the two: Foxhole (GamingPickz Score 7.2)
  • The cheaper right now: Blood of Steel (Free)
  • Better on a Steam Deck: Foxhole (playable)
  • Lighter on storage: Foxhole (20 GB)
  • The safer bet by weight of reviews: Foxhole (52,962 reviews)

What they have in common

Both are tagged by Steam players with:

RPGStrategyMultiplayerWarActionPvPSandboxMassively Multiplayer

Where they differ

Blood of Steel is also

Hack and SlashMedievalFree to PlayHorsesHistoricalRTS

Foxhole is also

WargameMilitaryBase-BuildingOpen WorldWorld War IITop-Down

Tags players apply to one game and not the other.

Difficulty and who each is for

By the tags players apply, Blood of Steel is middle-of-the-road on difficulty. Foxhole is middle-of-the-road on difficulty.

System requirements, side by side

Blood of SteelFoxhole
Minimum GPUNVIDIA Geforce GT 430Nvidia GTX GTX 960 / AMD Radeon R9 380
Minimum CPUIntel Core i5 4-Core Processor and aboveIntel Core i5-6200U / AMD Ryzen 3 3200U
Minimum RAM12 GB8 GB
Install size60 GB20 GB

Can your PC run them? Check each against your own kit: Blood of Steel · Foxhole.

Accessibility features

Steam store pages declare 0 accessibility features for Blood of Steel and 0 for Foxhole. A declaration is a floor, not a review.

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Common questions

How different are Blood of Steel and Foxhole in scope?

Blood of Steel has drawn 6,901 Steam reviews, ships 2 add-ons and installs in 60 GB. Foxhole has drawn 52,962 Steam reviews, ships 1 add-on and installs in 20 GB.

Is Blood of Steel or Foxhole better?

By the GamingPickz Score, Foxhole rates higher (7.2 to 6.4). That is a composite of player sentiment, the critic aggregate and popularity, not our taste. "Better" also depends on price, length and platform, which the table above lays out.

Which is cheaper, Blood of Steel or Foxhole?

Blood of Steel is cheaper right now at Free, against $29.99. Prices move, so this is read live from Steam and can change.

Do you rank one above the other for a fee?

No. Neither game, nor anyone else, pays for placement or a verdict here. The order and every figure come out of the same public data the rest of the site uses.

How we compare, and what we will not do

The GamingPickz Score is a composite of player sentiment (adjusted for sample size), the critic aggregate and popularity, computed by the same code every ranked list on this site uses. The Steam rating label is Valve's own, reconstructed from the positive percentage and review count. Prices are read live. We do not write an opinion of which game is "better": we report the numbers and say which wins each measurable question above.

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