Saints Row IV: Re-Elected

Saints Row IV: Re-Elected

Worth it · Shooter · 2013

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 85% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$19.99Worth it

Typical seasonal cut

$4.9975% offWorth it

Cost per hour▼
$1.33/hr
Reviews▼
88% of 77,649
Critics
86 players 2 higher
Genre rank
Top 15% Shooter

Holding it back: DRM, Cost per hour

Why
No price makes it a BANGER.

Recent reviews trending down: 78% over the last 30 days against 88% all-time.

Watch this gameOne alert at $4.99 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
15h
To 100%
44h 2.9x the story
Finish
23% reach the ending
Achievements
73

Price and sales

Sales
102 on record
Typical cut
75% off
Steam low
$2.99 September 2020
Sale every
39d last October 2026
Lowest now $4.99 at GOGall-time low $2.69 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
95 now
Recent reviews
78% 30 days
Cheaper than
16% of its genre
Better reviewed
76% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

90% start to 23% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

It has been discounted 102 times in the 13 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.

Against its own genre its score lands in the top 15 percent. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 76 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Saints Row: The Third ($9.99, scores 95) beats it on value, while it beats Saints Row ($29.99, scores 2).

More about Saints Row IV: Re-Elected

Steam's global achievement data puts 23 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18. Players rate it 88 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 78 percent. Something recent has soured the room. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 11 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written October 2024 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 69 percent of the 3,477 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.

Finishing takes 15 hours; clearing it takes 44, which is 2.9 times the campaign.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Last discount ended 24 days ago.

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Engagement23% finish
How far players get (achievements). It can only add points
MonetizationNone
No in-game purchases. Paid DLC exists and is not docked
Holding it back
Cost per hour$1.33/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
DRMEpic Online Services account needed
Needs a second account on top of Steam, a small friction discount
For context
Refunds11 of 800 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

it was a fun game until they tried to auto-download epic games launcher without prompting me.
ebeardNot recommendedafter 120h12 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Used to be a fun game on Xbox, can't even play it on PC anymore. Epic Games installer auto launches and installs itself without asking for approval. No thanks.
KnownDegenerateNot recommendedafter 2.6hOct 2026Read on Steam
Library -> Saints Row IV -> Properties -> Game Versions & Betas -> sriv_legacy Now your copy of Saints Row IV finally works as it did befor the Re-Elected update.
Eddo of RiviaRecommendedafter 47h30 found this helpfulRead on Steam

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

About the game

Experience the insane antics of Saints Row IV. The Saints have gone from the Penthouse to the White House - but Earth has been invaded and it’s up to you to save it with an arsenal of superpowers and strange weapons, in the wildest open world game ever.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 260 | AMD Radeon HD 5800 series, 10 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.

Cite this score

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Saints Row IV: Re-Elected scores 69/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/206420/saints-row-iv-re-elected
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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 Nov 3, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+2
Critics86
Players88
Metacritic critics · 77,649 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperDeep Silver Volition
PublisherDeep Silver
GenreShooter
Released2013
Players7.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements73