Evil West
Skip · Shooter · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $49.99.
- Length
- 10.8h
- Value
- $4.63/hr
- Reviews
- 74% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 4 GB VRAM, GeForce GTX 750 Ti / Radeon RX 460, 40 GB of storage. Windows only.
A dark menace consumes the Old West. In solo or coop, fight with style in visceral, explosive combat against bloodthirsty monstrosities. Eradicate the vampiric hordes with your lightning-fueled gauntlet and become a Wild West Superhero.
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
June 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $7.49. Its cuts run 70 percent off as a rule. There have been 37 in the 4 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Red Dead Online ($9.99, scores 58) and Lost Castle 2 ($12.59, scores 47) both outscore it.
Steam's global achievement data puts 22 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 10 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 53 percent of the 1,196 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 10.8 hours; clearing it takes 22, which is 2.1 times the campaign.
The drop-off
72% start to 22% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
109 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
7/10 good AA game. Linear mission with solid upgrades and weapon variety. Pure Action killing Vampires Western style. Gameplay combat is TOP! Story was okay.
I GOT THIS GAME ON SALE. this game was on sale for 10 bucks and i would recommend it at that price. it took me almost 20 hours to beat and it was entertaining. the reasons id recommend it ONLY IF ITS ON SALE are as follows; 1. the combat is genuinely entertaining. its challenging, fast paced and takes a decent amount of reactivity and playstyle change to stay fresh 2. the world is really pretty. each world has a...
DISCLAIMER: strictly speaking this is not entirely meant to discourage you from playing the game (steam only gives two options and I can't sincerely recommend it entirely either) - I do want to err on the side of caution for a game that you're spending money upfront; additionally I have made a fair amount of progress in the campaign but I HAVE NOT completed it yet, I have decided to drop it however! As much as the...
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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Evil West scores 28/100 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/1065310/evil-westThe 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 15, price as of Sep 24.
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