Wanted: Dead
Skip · Shooter · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 11, under the fair line, at $29.99.
- Length
- 7.7h 18.5h to 100%
- Value
- $3.89/hr
- Reviews
- 65% of 2,155 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
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
About the game
A cult classic love letter to PS2 era action from ex–Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive devs. Slice and shoot your way through a neon Hong Kong conspiracy as the Zombie Unit featuring brutal combat, over-the-top gore, and a ramen break between the carnage. Proudly not for everyone.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060, 50 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 23 times in the 4 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 60 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 87 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 82 percent. On the same math The Killing Antidote ($29.99, scores 53) and BloodRayne: Terminal Cut ($14.99, scores 62) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about Wanted: Dead
Steam's global achievement data puts about 1 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 7.7-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 32 of the 749 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2023 to October 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, 131 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 3 of the 32 refunded reviewers were past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. In its first 30 days on sale, 11 of 126 sampled reviews came from refunders. Inside the two-hour refund window, 38 percent of the 357 reviews written there were positive, against 65 percent overall, and those are 26 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 7.7 hours; clearing it takes 19, which is 2.4 times the campaign.
The drop-off
90% start to 1% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 14, 04:49 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This game is hard if you do not lock in. The combat is pretty good, characters are cool and alive, like a real person.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
still playin upvoting cuz some people are sagged by a picture (rightfully) but the game delivers hectic mayhem i need
The game was pretty bad, but I didn't leave negative review because it already had a pretty low score and I wanted to give the devs some slack. However, now that they've added AI slop to it, there's no reason for me not to leave a negative review.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Wanted: Dead scores 11/100 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/1981610/wanted-deadReviews 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 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.