Shadow Warrior
Fair · Shooter · 2013
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 90% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$29.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$2.9990% offWorth it
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.44/hr
- ReviewsS
- 92% of 26,796
- Critics
- 74 players 18 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 20% Shooter
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Monetization
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 12.3h
- To 100%
- 36h 2.9x the story
- Finish
- 17% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 92
Price and sales
- Sales
- 101 on record
- Typical cut
- 85% off
- Steam low
- $2.99 November 2022
- Sale every
- 42d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 11 now
- Cheaper than
- 7% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 89% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
57% start to 17% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 101 discounts in the 13 years tracked, the median cut is 85 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 20 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Shadow Warrior Classic Redux ($9.99, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Shadow Warrior 2 ($29.99, scores 52).
More about Shadow Warrior
Critics scored it 74. Players sit 18 points higher at 92 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 17 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 12.3-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 6 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 75 percent of the 1,569 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (cosmetic); the score docks it lightly for that.
12.3 hours to finish it, 36 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.9 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 12.3 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 31 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
What players say
One of the most fun games I've had the pleasure of playing. Corny jokes, watching rabbits do the dirty and facing the demon rabbit if you repeatedly kill the shagging bunnies was one of the most entertaining things I've experienced in my 40+ years of gaming. Plenty of secrets and easter eggs dedicated to the original and even some nods to Serious Sam 3. Only con of this game was it eventually becomes a slog playing...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Very enjoyable old-school FPS. A little repetitive toward the end, and the story is nonsensical, but overall the gameplay was a lot of fun. Well worth the three dollars I paid for it.
While I do enjoy it for the most part, I struggle giving it a positive review. The whole game is your typical 2010s shooter with RPG character progression, linear level design with hidden secrets that, when discovered, reward the player with points for upgrades to their weapons, new abilities or passive character upgrades. The arsenal is also a bit boomer shooter-ish, with shotguns, rocket launchers, grenade...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Shadow Warrior is a bold reimagining of the classic 3D Realms’ shooter from independent developer Flying Wild Hog (Hard Reset) starring the legendary and quick-witted warrior Lo Wang.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, ATI Radeon HD 3870/NVIDIA 8800 GT or better, 15 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Shadow Warrior 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/233130/shadow-warriorReviews 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 5, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.