Blood West
Fair · Shooter · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $24.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 13.6h
- Value
- $1.84/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 82% over the last 30 days against 90% all-time.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
Weird west legends meet eldritch horror in BLOOD WEST, an immersive stealth FPS. Become the Undead Gunslinger, doomed to roam the barren lands until he manages to purge their curse, freeing his soul. 3 varied scenarios, perk-based character progression, and 20+ hours of gameplay await you!
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
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $6.24. That was June 2026. 43 discounts in the 5 years on record. They run about 40 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 21 percent on value. It is pricier than 82 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 80 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Prey ($29.99, scores 69) beats it on value, while it beats This Land Is My Land ($29.99, scores 14).
The press gave it 80; the people who bought it give it 90 percent. A 10-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Players rate it 90 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 82 percent. Something recent has soured the room. This site sampled 699 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 20 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written January 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 63 percent of the 615 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 13.6 hours; clearing it takes 35, which is 2.6 times the campaign.
At 13.6 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
78% 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
Players
92 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 21:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Story is boring, stealth game but not fully there. Quite challenging with lots to explore, atmosphere is nice. Loot does not feel impactful and its quite repetative (constant fetch quests). A lot of wasted potential but still worth playing on a sale.
I really wish this was fun, but it just isnt. It feels like the stealth is designed to be a drag and not fun as well as the combat being abysmal when you get caught. It is supposed to encourage stealth, but failing stealth is incredibly unforgiving and running away after being seen is boring. The levels themselves need to be built around stealth better because its just large empty spaces without creative means of...
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Cite this score
Blood West scores 66/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1587130/blood-westReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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