Pistol Whip
Fair · Shooter · 2019
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a BANGER price before.
Today
$29.99Fair
On its price record
$5.15BANGER
- Length
- 2.1h
- Value
- $14.28/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Geforce GTX 970 or equivalent, 799 MB of storage. Windows only.
Enter: the ultimate action hero. Pistol Whip is a physical action-rhythm game where film-inspired gunplay and blood-pumping beats collide. Blast, duck and dodge your way through fever dream Scenes, build unique rhythms in a ballet of bullets and claim glory on the leaderboards. Includes mod support!
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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $11.99, set in June 2026. 38 discounts in the 7 years on record. They run about 35 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart. $5.15 is what it would take to make this a BANGER, and nothing in its history goes that low.
On value it sits in the top 37 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 87 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, ROBOBEAT ($19.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats Vox Machinae ($29.99, scores 52).
Critics scored it 83. Players sit 11 points higher at 94 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
This site sampled 430 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 15 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 88 percent of the 1,399 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 39 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 2.1 hours. Doing everything runs 7, 3.3 times as long.
The drop-off
73% start to 1% 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
11 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 18:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Pistol whip is great fun. One of my favourite VR games. While I think something like Beat Saber is probably better purely as a rythm game, I think just the whole combination of fun music, vibrant levels and satisfying gun mechanics is why I see myself playing this much more often than any other rythm game. Definitely a good work out too. It's worth it even for the full price but if you get it during a sale, it's a...
This is 2nd best VR game, hands down. The only game better than this is Beat Saber - and thats partially because of custom songs. I wish this game supported that as well. But honestly its baffing how such a good game is STILL getting updates even 6 years after release. I will definitely buy a sequel if you ever make one.
This is the only VR I've played that stands with Half-Life Alyx and Superhot. Also somehow the best John Wick game.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Pistol Whip scores 53/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1079800/pistol-whipReviews 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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