Ready or Not
Skip · Shooter · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 41, under the fair line, at $49.99. Fair at $22.55, lower than any Steam price we have tracked since Dec 2021 (lowest $24.99, Dec 2024).
- Cost per hour▼
- $3.10/hr
- Reviews▼
- 79% of 350,949
- Genre rank
- Top 51% Shooter
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews
Why
Recent reviews trending up: 89% over the last 30 days against 79% all-time.
Watch this gameOne alert at $22.55 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 16.1h
- To 100%
- 58.9h 3.7x the story
- Achievements
- 66
Price and sales
- Sales
- 38 on record
- Typical cut
- 40% off
- Steam low
- $24.99 December 2024
- Sale every
- 37d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 7,083 now
- Recent reviews
- 89% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 2% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 51% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
94% start to <1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
38 discounts in the 5 years on record, a median of 40 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Incursion Red River ($17.59, scores 42) beats it on value, while it beats SCP: 5K ($19.99, scores 37).
More about Ready or Not
Players rate it 79 percent positive over its lifetime, and the last 30 days run 89 percent. It is aging into a better game than its average suggests. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 18 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written September 2026 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 64 percent of the 12,108 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 16.1 hours; clearing it takes 59, which is 3.7 times the campaign.
350,949 reviews stand behind that percentage.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
I've been playing Ready or Not since the pre-beta/early access days. I supported this game when it was still being built because I genuinely believed in what the developers were promising and the direction they were taking. After following the game for years, I honestly feel like the game I originally supported is very different from what we ended up with. One of my biggest frustrations is how early supporters have...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
**Ready or Not - The Modding Community Is the Only Thing Keeping This Game Alive** The AI in *Ready or Not* is still lousy, and at this point, it's ridiculous how little meaningful improvement has been made. Enemy AI continues to behave inconsistently, while friendly SWAT AI still struggles with basic tactics, decision-making, and common sense. For a game built around realistic tactical police operations, the AI...
Intense and very unforgiving gunfighting mechanics. A dark campaign best played with friends for the most immersive experience.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Ready or Not is an intense, tactical, first-person shooter that depicts a modern-day world in which SWAT police units are called to defuse hostile and confronting situations.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 2GB / AMD Radeon R7 370 2GB, 60 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Ready or Not scores 41/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1144200/ready-or-notReviews 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 Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.