Far Cry®
Fair · Shooter · 2008
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 70% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$9.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$2.9970% offFair
- Cost per hourS
- $0.78/hr
- Reviews▼
- 82% of 11,990
- Critics
- 89 players 7 lower
- Genre rank
- Top 23% Shooter
Holding it back: Reviews
Recent reviews trending down: 73% over the last 30 days against 82% all-time.
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 12.8h
- To 100%
- 19.3h 1.5x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 104 on record
- Typical cut
- 70% off
- Steam low
- $2.49 March 2013
- Sale every
- 35d last September 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 53 now
- Recent reviews
- 73% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 46% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 59% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
104 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 70 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.
Its score sits in the top 23 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Metro: Last Light Redux ($19.99, scores 68) beats it on value, while it beats Crysis ($29.99, scores 42).
More about Far Cry®
Players rate it 82 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 73 percent. Something recent has soured the room. 8 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 67 percent of the 1,884 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 17 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
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
Yeah, so i haven't written any reviews on steam for quite some time. But i just had to write one for this game. I beat this game out of spite. Had a CD-version of it many years ago, but haven't really played it that much, only the first couple levels. I remember that back in the day it looked phenomenal, and the gunplay felt really decent as well. So when i saw it on sale for a buckaroo or so on Steam, i decided to...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
The game is beyond broken on Steam, the AI is stupidly broken as they can see and shoot you from miles away, sometimes even prefiring. Even with all the fixes the game was insanely hard even on the easiest difficulty, having 20 enemies all over the map with perfect aim, some with rocket launchers spamming and even helicopters not to mention the mutants that can easily one shot the player. The game was really fun up...
Nostalgia from back in the days. It's the first Far Cry ever made. The original. Back in the days, when games were still made with love and passion. And for a game of 2004, it looks utterly good. If you still want to cherry-pick and complain about anything though, OK: the AI is unfortunately pretty bad. It must be mentioned still, that for 2004 dimensions, the attempt is OK - the AI tries to react, enemy soldiers...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
A tropical paradise seethes with hidden evil in Far Cry®, a cunningly detailed action shooter that pushes the boundaries of combat to shocking new levels. Freelance mariner Jack Carver is cursing the day he ever came to this island.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, 64 MB DirectX 9.0b-compliant graphics card (see supported list*), 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Far Cry® scores 63/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/13520/far-cryReviews 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.