Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun
Fair · Shooter · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $21.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 9.9h
- Value
- $2.22/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 50% ($10.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 67% ($7.25)
- Last discount ended
- 16 days ago
Watch it for a saleSources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 1 GB VRAM, AMD Radeon HD 7770 / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
Load up your Boltgun and unleash the awesome Space Marine arsenal to blast your way through an explosion of sprites, pixels and blood in a perfect blend of Warhammer 40,000, frenetic gameplay and the stylish visuals of 90’s retro shooters.
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
The lowest price on record is $7.25, set in May 2026. 37 discounts in the 3 years on record. They run about 40 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.
On value it sits in the top 26 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 81 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 79 percent. Among the games that feel like it, DOOM 64 ($4.99, scores 87) beats it on value, while it beats Dread Templar ($19.99, scores 45).
Critics scored it 75. Players sit 14 points higher at 89 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
23 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, 87 percent of the 3,590 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 23 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 9.9 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
36% start to <1% 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
68 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 01:45 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Boltgun is simultaneously a fun game on its own terms, and a little bit disappointing as a fan of the original Doom. Essentially this is Doom 2016 with a graphical gimmick. There's nothing wrong with that - Doom 2016 was a great game - but what I want from a retro-shooter is for it to use all that processing power it's saving for other things. This is still fundamentally quite a linear game, with most of the...
This Bolter is precise and robust! Game: "Only those shall understand the Truth who'll rise from a dust by the Omnissiah's Will!" Me: "Nah, bro, I've got enough experience, I don't need an Easy difficulty! Lets start it on Hard!" Game: "The ignorance shall be purged, one shall know the obedience!" ***a couple hours later...*** Me (struggling in Act 2): "Can I have a Difficulty change back to Normal please?" Game...
this game just baits you with doom 64 aesthestic of boomer shooters, but inside its a boredom fest full of disgusting level designs, frustrating difficulty even on normal!!!!, 90% of the guns you get being useless (just speedrun it with bolter). not to mention the game is way too long.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun scores 62/100 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/2005010/warhammer-40-000-boltgunReviews 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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