Necromunda: Hired Gun
Skip · Shooter · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $39.99.
- Length
- 8.2h
- Value
- $4.88/hr
- Reviews
- 65% positive
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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.
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.
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
The lowest price on record is $5.99, set in September 2025. It has been discounted 50 times in the 6 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. 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 93 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 80 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Space Hulk: Deathwing Enhanced Edition ($29.99, scores 26) beats it on value, while it beats Their Land ($2.00, scores 0).
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 8. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 29 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written December 2023 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 57 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 39 percent of the 1,109 reviews written there were positive, against 65 percent overall, and those are 19 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 8.2 hours; clearing it takes 18, which is 2.2 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 8.2 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
82% start to 34% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements
Players
32 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
Ah, welcome Darktide refugee. This is where the darktide single player campaign lived all along. You'll find home and hearth here.
After playing it for not quite 2 hours yet, I can see some other's frustrations with the game. AI doesn't give a ♥♥♥♥ about your wellbeing and simply zeroes in on the player's position. They do come at you from both sides and then some so you have to be ready. Some higher tier enemies are also quite capable of ruining your day a little too effectively. I want to say in some sense this is a good thing, in others, for...
Fun and engaging Doom like shooter in Warhammer 40K universe. I like it a lot! Runs great, looks great, plays great!
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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Necromunda: Hired Gun scores 14/100 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/1222370/necromunda-hired-gunThe 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 Jul 30, price as of Sep 24.
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