Necromunda: Hired Gun
Skip · Shooter · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 14, under the fair line, at $39.99.
- Cost per hour▼
- $4.82/hr
- Reviews▼
- 65% of 8,033
- Genre rank
- Top 80% Shooter
Holding it back: Reviews, Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 8.3h
- To 100%
- 17.6h 2.1x the story
- Finish
- 34% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 48
Price and sales
- Sales
- 52 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $5.99 September 2025
- Sale every
- 36d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 18 now
- Cheaper than
- 3% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 19% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
82% start to 34% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 52 times in the 6 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 81 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Space Hulk: Deathwing Enhanced Edition ($29.99, scores 25) beats it on value, while it beats The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners - Chapter 2: Retribution ($9.99, scores 13).
More about Necromunda: Hired Gun
Steam's global achievement data puts 34 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 28 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written December 2023 to October 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,424 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 222 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 39 percent of the 1,117 reviews written there were positive, against 65 percent overall, and those are 19 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 8.3 hours; clearing it takes 18, which is 2.1 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 8.3 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 14 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
This is a chaotic, fast-paced shooter that gets a lot right about atmosphere and movement, even if it stumbles a bit in execution. If you enjoy games like Doom or Titanfall, the moment-to-moment gameplay feels surprisingly smooth once you get in a flow state. Blasting through hive-city cultists while wall-running, double-jumping, and using a grappling hook is an absolute blast, and the guns carry a satisfying...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I personaly liked it. I like fast paced shooters and i liked the Mad Max art style of the game. Sure it has things that sucked like you have to clear 30min missions in one go. You can't save in between so it's not like hey i"m gonna shoot a bit for 10 of 15 minutes. If you quit you have to start whole mission again. There where 3 occasions where enemies got stuck in the floor or behind a wall and i needed to kill...
Backgrounds are really pretty, nice to look at in screenshots. Unfortunately, once you start moving, it gets hard to pick the enemies out from the doo-hickies everywhere. And for a fast-paced game, it's not always clear which way is the way you need to flash too next. The movement made me nauseous, and I play a lot of fps games with busy backgrounds and fast speed. IDK why this one knots up my gut. Also, this is a...
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About the game
Become a Hired Gun. The money’s good, the dog’s loyal, and the gun’s reliable. Embark on a fast-paced, violent, and thrilling FPS set in the darkest reaches of Warhammer 40,000’s most infamous hive city.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 1 GB VRAM, Radeon HD 7770 / GeForce GTX 560 Ti, 50 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Necromunda: Hired Gun scores 14/100 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/1222370/necromunda-hired-gunReviews 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.