Wild West and Wizards

Wild West and Wizards

Skip · Shooter · 2020

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 31, under the fair line, at $14.99.

Length
11.2h 35h to 100%
Value
$1.34/hr
Reviews
73% of 389 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

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
Engagement3% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$1.34/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews73% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds3 of 304 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

About the game

Wild West and Wizards is an open world exploration RPG set in a re-imagined new frontier. Pick a class and level up unlocking abilities and exploring a world filled with quests, loot, outlaws, bosses, spells, caves, towns, and other mysterious places.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 560, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

It has been discounted 51 times in the 7 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

It is less well reviewed than 66 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Salt ($14.99, scores 33) beats it on value, while it beats Savage Lands ($3.99, scores 0).

More about Wild West and Wizards

Steam's global achievement data puts about 3 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On an 11.2-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 304 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to July 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 48 percent of the 102 reviews written there were positive, against 73 percent overall, and those are 28 percent of everything written about it.

The main story runs 11.2 hours. Doing everything runs 35, 3.1 times as long.

The drop-off

42% start to 3% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements

What players say

the dev has abandonned this game and it is wildly unfinished and not worth ur money
man.pngNot recommendedafter 12hJul 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
A casual open world shooter. Very basic shoot and loot gameplay. Worth like $5 but your mileage may vary.
Ares God of MarsNot recommendedafter 7.3hJul 2026Read on Steam
Better than Fallout 4. It was made by like 3 people. Loved it for it's simple but solid gameplay formula.
Dr FartRecommendedafter 25hJul 2025Read on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Wild West and Wizards scores 31/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1071290/wild-west-and-wizards
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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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperLavaboots Studios
PublisherLavaboots Studios
GenreShooter
Released2020
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements21