River City Girls

River City Girls

Skip · Action · 2019

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 44, under the fair line, at $29.99.

Length
7h
Value
$4.28/hr
Reviews
84% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
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Length
7h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
15.8h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$4.28
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$29.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
84%
3,807 reviews, as of Sep 26
Players
350K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2019

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 or equivalent, 6 GB of storage. Windows only.

There's trouble once again in River City, and this time only the girls can save the day! Using a variety of attacks, weapons, and items, these hot-blooded heroines are ready to teach the city’s lowlifes a lesson - either solo or in 2-player co-op! It’s an old-school rumble for a new generation!
Description from the Steam store page.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Engagement12% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$4.28/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews84% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Length7 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach350K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds9 of 589 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

The lowest price on record is $10.49, set in November 2025. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 26 in the 7 years tracked, about 12 weeks apart.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 21 percent on value. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Mother Russia Bleeds ($14.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Scott Pilgrim vs. The World™: The Game – Complete Edition ($4.94, scores 39).

Steam's global achievement data puts about 12 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 7-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 589 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 9 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 57 percent of the 448 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.

The main story runs 7 hours. Doing everything runs 16, 2.3 times as long.

The drop-off

74% start to 12% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

A normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements

What players say

This game is almost impossible playing single player, once you get to Hibari, its pretty much done. removing the rest of these games off my wish list.
Bananas NicelyNot recommendedafter 4.7hJul 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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River City Girls scores 44/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1049320/river-city-girls
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.

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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperWayForward
PublisherWayForward
GenreAction
Released2019
Achievements29