Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive
Worth it · Action · 2013
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.99. Typically $1.24 in seasonal sales. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.20/hr
- Reviews▼
- 88% of 2,460
- Critics
- 78 players 10 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 2% Action
Holding it back: Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 25.1h
- To 100%
- 35.7h 1.4x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 89 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $0.99 July 2018
- Sale every
- 51d last September 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 27 now
- Cheaper than
- 51% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 94% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 89 times in the 13 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 94 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Desperados III ($39.99, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats Shadow Tactics: Aiko's Choice ($19.99, scores 57).
More about Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive
78 from critics against 88 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
2 of the 391 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2020 to November 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 67 percent of the 525 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 25 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. 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
I indeed put myself as best as I could in 2001 mode for this review, but ultimately I cannot recommend. Even if you take into account that this game is from 2001, with all the difficulties that come with it, there are many flaws that make it impossible to have a new experience today: 1. The game's pacing at the beginning is atrocious: 1 tutorial -> mission to get new member -> Tutorial -> mission to get new member...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
The game features no achievements (Never did on any platform)... ... so I'm free to judge it only on performance and ...oh boy... Crashes once every 1-2 hours for me. Usually when it's been 10 minutes since the last save :)) The controls are iffy at best, Whenever throwing stuff (cards, stun gas potions etc...) You have half of a chance at most of it working (less if you're aiming on a higher level or inside a...
Played this when I was a kid, it was challenging but fun to figure out the best strategy's to beat these levels. Replayed it when I was older, still a great strategy game to play, if you like to challenge yourself even more, try to beat all levels without killing anyone. Makes the game even better in my opinion!
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
"Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive" is the first strategy game ever to combine a movie-based and story-driven atmosphere of an adventure game with the intellectual challenge of a real time tactic game.In this western-style title, discover a game of strategy and tactics played out in exceptional real time.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, 3D graphics card compatible with OpenGL 3.1. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive scores 75/100 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/260730/desperados-wanted-dead-or-aliveReviews 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 17, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.