Resident Evil 6
Skip · Shooter · 2013
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $19.99.
- Length
- 20.8h
- Value
- $0.96/hr
- Reviews
- 77% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 8800GTS or better, 16 GB of storage. Windows only.
Blending action and survival horror, Resident Evil 6 promises to be the dramatic horror experience of 2013.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $4.99, set in June 2026. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 79 in the 13 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 37 percent on value. It is pricier than 78 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Resident Evil 5 ($19.99, scores 63) beats it on value, while it beats Strange Brigade ($49.99, scores 40).
The press gave it 69; the people who bought it give it 77 percent. An 8-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data says about 1 percent of players ever finish it. On a 20.8-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 4 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 54 percent of the 3,676 reviews written there were positive, against 77 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
20.8 hours to finish it, 52 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.5 times the campaign.
13 years after release it still had 515 people in it at once.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
The drop-off
88% start to 1% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 20.8-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
515 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
An arcade cabinet wearing a Resident Evil costume: This is probably the cartoon-iest entry in the entire Resident Evil gameology. Everything about it feels more like an arcade game, from the silly running animations that look like it was described by a blind person, an odd stumbling animation that triggers every time you sprint over a corpse, and where heads and limbs randomly slough off parts of the zombie you...
Basically a long arcade game that is actively trying to piss you off with its obnoxious amount of QTEs, parading itself as a mainline Resident Evil game. Sherry being in it was the only saving grace for me.
Resident Evil 6 was a really fun game for me, especially because of how action-packed it is. This game takes the action in Resident Evil to another level, and there are so many crazy moments, explosions, fights, and ridiculous situations that it's hard not to have a good time. One of the things I really enjoyed was the funny moments throughout the game. Even though Resident Evil is supposed to be a horror series...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Resident Evil 6 scores 49/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/221040/resident-evil-6The BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 12, price as of Sep 22.
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