Crossfire: Sierra Squad

Crossfire: Sierra Squad

Skip · Shooter · 2023

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The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 31, under the fair line, at $29.99.

Length
4.2h 30.7h to 100%
Value
$7.14/hr
Reviews
73% of 540 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
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Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.

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

Raising the score
Replayability~25h to replay
Co-op and replay time. The value score counts hours well past the 4.2h main story
Holding it back
Value$7.14/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews73% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 72% after the small-sample adjustment
Refunds12 of 428 reviews
Well above the typical game's share of reviews from refunded buyers, so the score takes a small dock
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Fierce military arcade shooter in VR for single-player and co-op multiplayer. Drop into a variety of indoor and outdoor battle scenes with 63 missions, 39 different weapons, and 17 types of enemies as you lead an elite fireteam into immersive 360° combat.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 1060 6G, 50 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

It has been discounted 28 times in the 3 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 40 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

It is pricier than 88 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 67 percent. Among the games that feel like it, 3D Aim Trainer (free, scores 65) beats it on value, while it beats Zero Caliber VR ($24.99, scores 30).

More about Crossfire: Sierra Squad

This site sampled 428 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 12 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2023 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,422 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 114 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 1 of the 12 refunded reviewers was past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 56 percent of the 226 reviews written there were positive, against 73 percent overall, and those are 47 percent of everything written about it.

4.2 hours to finish it, 31 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 7.3 times the campaign.

The drop-off

77% start to 2% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

Players online
2 when we last checked, on Oct 2, 00:53 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

Just finished the campaign and I wanted to present my thoughts on the game. This review does contain spoilers for the gameplay and story, so be advised if you haven't played yet. Positives first. The game is very arcadey, which I like. Enemies are bullet sponges and usually take a few shots before dropping, so fights are usually extended. The gunplay is.. alright. I did struggle reloading a few weapons (SCAR, P90)...
Mickey MouseRecommendedafter 4.2hJul 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews
The best shooter on PCVR after hlalex. Realism mode is the most fun ive had in VR hands down. Tons of content to do. Never see anyone online though for coop.
Ren&SimpyRecommendedafter 1.5h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
Zero Caliber 2 is an all around better game, but if you already played it, then this is still fun. Something that would have made this way better is if horde mode on multi-player player could be done solo, while other join while you are actively playing. This is something Zero caliber never did and would have bumped this up greatly, but they chose not to do that. Instead, nobody will wait around for hours watching a...
VauntureRecommendedafter 5.8hAug 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Crossfire: Sierra Squad scores 31/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1636030/crossfire-sierra-squad
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Reviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

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Details

DeveloperSmilegate
PublisherSmilegate
GenreShooter
Released2023
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements35