Far Cry® 6

Far Cry® 6

Skip · Shooter · 2023

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

It scores 21, under the fair line, at $59.99.

Cost per hour▼
$2.41/hr
Reviews▼
71% of 39,567
Genre rank
Top 73% Shooter

Holding it back: DRM, Reviews

Why
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Time and effort

Main story
24.9h
To 100%
65.1h 2.6x the story
Achievements
99

Price and sales

Sales
34 on record
Typical cut
75% off
Steam low
$5.99 September 2026
Sale every
42d last September 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $5.40 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
2,028 now
Recent reviews
68% 30 days
Cheaper than
1% of its genre
Better reviewed
30% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

53% start to <1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

34 discounts in the 3 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 about 4 weeks ago.

It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 70 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora™ ($29.99, scores 43) beats it on value, while it beats Watch Dogs®: Legion ($59.99, scores 1).

More about Far Cry® 6

4 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2026 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 48 percent of the 2,203 reviews written there were positive, against 71 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.

Finishing takes 24.9 hours; clearing it takes 65, which is 2.6 times the campaign.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 30 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

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 we assumed
  • Steam lists in-app purchases but we have no detail on them. Small caution applied.
Holding it back
Cost per hour$2.41/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
MonetizationIn-app purchases
Steam lists in-app purchases and nothing more is known, so a small haircut
DRMUbisoft account needed
Denuvo copy protection, a small friction discount
For context
Refunds4 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

From the mixed reviews, I thought the game wasn't gonna be good, but it wasn't as bad as I thought Some things that I disliked is that they removed the ability to throw melee weapons & fists that were introduced in FC5, the world being overwhelmingly huge with less fast travelling points, and that I got a fever 2 weeks ago and had a dream and Anton Castillo was in it, he called me weak and then I woke up at like 4...
Capri AnimatedRecommendedafter 74hSep 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
It's a good Far Cry game Hurk is not here but it's a good game, with a lot of fun stuff and content and all
FLYZZRecommendedafter 45hSep 2026Read on Steam
Just buy older Far Cry game, don't buy this. The game always ounish you as a player in a bad way and take away your time in Insurgency mode
Kaki Aman Bos?Not recommendedafter 52h8 found this helpfulRead on Steam

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

About the game

Lead the revolution in this first-person open world guerrilla shooter. Fight with improvised weapons, travel however you can, and build your rebel network to take down Castillo's regime.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, AMD RX 460 (4 GB) or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 (4 GB), 170 GB of storage. Windows only.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Far Cry® 6 scores 21/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2369390/far-cry-6
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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 Oct 31, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Details

DeveloperUbisoft Toronto
PublisherUbisoft
GenreShooter
Released2023
Players750Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements99