Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood

Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood

Fair · Shooter · 2009

Steam Deck Unsupported

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 80% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$9.99Fair

Typical seasonal cut

$1.9980% offWorth it

Cost per hour▼
$1.33/hr
Reviews▼
87% of 5,158
Critics
78 players 9 higher
Genre rank
Top 19% Shooter

Holding it back: Reviews, Cost per hour

Why
It needs 17% off ($8.25) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $1.99 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
7.5h
To 100%
12.3h 1.6x the story

Price and sales

Sales
110 on record
Typical cut
75% off
Steam low
$0.99 May 2024
Sale every
39d last October 2026
Lowest now $1.99 at GOGall-time low $0.90 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
28 now
Cheaper than
46% of its genre
Better reviewed
74% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story

The value story

110 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 6 days ago.

Its score sits in the top 19 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 74 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Call of Juarez: Gunslinger ($14.99, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats Call of Juarez ($9.99, scores 54).

More about Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood

Critics scored it 78. Players sit 9 points higher at 87 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.

This site sampled 639 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 3 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 58 percent of the 650 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Last discount ended 6 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

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
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds3 of 639 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

This game is a lot of fun. One of my favourite things about it is how much dialogue there is. You never feel bored or alone.
FightingTableRecommendedafter 6.2h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews
Review: Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood I haven't played a better cowboy game than this. Considering it came out in 2009, the graphics are a masterpiece-truly gorgeous, delivering an even better Wild West experience. The characters and the story? Wow, I am left speechless. This game is basically everything the first game should have been: it took what didn't work, fixed it, or completely removed it, and I am...
Akapelius123510Recommendedafter 19h2 found this helpfulRead on Steam
Techlands's 2009 prequel to their original Call of Juarez strives to make everything bigger, longer, better and more consistently so. This time we play as the McCall brothers. From their days in the confederate army to their days as freeroaming bandits and their eventual falling out. Learning from the shortcomings of their previous game, we can now select which character we want to play every chapter as. Stealth is...
Argenwarrior_DestroyerofPeroniaRecommendedafter 11hSep 2026Read on Steam

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

About the game

THE OLD WEST, 1864. In order to save their family, the McCall brothers will kill anyone who stands between them and the legendary Gold of Juarez.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.

No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood scores 65/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/21980/call-of-juarez-bound-in-blood
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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 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+9
Critics78
Players87
Metacritic critics · 5,158 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperTechland
PublisherTechland Publishing
GenreShooter
Released2009
Players350Kowners, SteamSpy estimate