Sniper Elite 5
Skip · Shooter · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $49.99.
- Length
- 10.9h
- Value
- $4.59/hr
- Reviews
- 84% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, DirectX12 capable GPU with 4GB VRAM, 85 GB of storage. Windows only.
The award-winning series returns as Karl Fairburne fights to uncover Project Kraken in 1944 France. The genre-defining authentic sniping, with enhanced kill cam, has never looked or felt better as you fight across immersive maps to stop the Nazi war machine in its tracks.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $4.99, set in September 2025. 29 discounts in the 5 years on record. They run about 70 percent off, roughly 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 2 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 8 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 47 percent on value. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 68 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Sniper Elite 4 ($59.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats Sniper Elite: Resistance ($49.99, scores 26).
15 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 45 percent of the 1,269 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 10.9 hours; clearing it takes 42, which is 3.8 times the campaign.
Still 1.5K concurrent players, 4 years in.
The drop-off
70% start to 2% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
1,538 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Is Sniper Elite 5 really good?, tbh... it kinda feels like I'm playing the same missions from Sniper Elite 4, just with better quality and much bigger maps. Advantage - the sniper weapons never really felt that exciting to me. They're okay and I like using them, but I feel like something is missing. - I played on Authentic difficulty and it was soo good I kinda liked it. It makes the game more challenging...
''Professionals have standards. Be polite. Be efficient. Have a plan to kill everyone you meet.'' - meet the sniper
Wow, on sale at 9/10, no wonder the gaming industry is getting worse, the people in charge of developing games besides being garbage and lazy at their jobs, have a disgusting political agenda. The irony of this, this is exactly what a pig nazi would do. The SE games lost thier touch since SE3, the missions are always the same but in different maps, there is no love in it, only losers who gain to profit for a cheap...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Sniper Elite 5 scores 41/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1029690/sniper-elite-5The BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 12, price as of Sep 24.
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