El Paso, Elsewhere
Worth it · Shooter · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Sep 2023.
- Length
- 8h 10.9h to 100%
- Value
- $1.25/hr
- Reviews
- 90% of 1,484 positive
Full price
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Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
STAKES. GUNS. SLOW-MO. Fight werewolves and vampires in a reality-shifting motel. Dive through barricades to escape the grasp of evil puppets. Destroy the villain you loved. A new, third-person love letter to classic shooters. Neo-noir never looked so good.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 or equivalent, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $9.99, set in April 2026. Across all 32 discounts in the 3 years tracked, the median cut is 30 percent, about 6 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 13 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 70 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 81 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Days Gone ($39.99, scores 85) beats it on value, while it beats The Last of Us™ Part I ($59.99, scores 46).
More about El Paso, Elsewhere
Critics scored it 78. Players sit 12 points higher at 90 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
14 of the 437 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2023 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 82 percent of the 297 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 21 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 8 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
94% start to 2% 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
What players say
Suitably short and tightly designed, arcadey yet character-driven, El Paso Elsewhere only begins to wear out its welcome once it's already in the final act and the plot is more to the forefront. It's primarily a Max Payne wannabe but it's a very good one. My only real complaint is that the boss fights feel clunky, but that's more than made up for with the rest of the experience.
2 more reviews
No clue what's up with the brain rotted guys in the review sections, this game's effing great. Good fun, good action, good VA, nice music, decent pacing, a bit repetitive at times. A lighter Max Payne (1-2).
Really fun PS1 style callback to games like Max Payne, but there are a few things that really elevate it above it's inspirations. FIrstly, the story, acting and the music are fantastic editions on top of it's visual style. Really great stuff. Would have been easy to just have some run-and-gun-guy you've no attachment to, but for me it really sold me on it's protaganist as a realistic & nuanced character. Which...
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Cite this score
El Paso, Elsewhere scores 72/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1546310/el-paso-elsewhereReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.