Red Dead Redemption
Fair · Shooter · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $49.99. A BANGER at $13.23, lower than any Steam price we have tracked since Oct 2024 (lowest $24.99, Nov 2025).
- Length
- 17.6h
- Value
- $2.84/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 6 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 40% ($29.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 50% ($24.99)
- Last discount ended
- 8 days ago
Watch it for a saleSources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 / AMD Radeon R7 360, 12 GB of storage. Windows only.
Experience the story of former outlaw John Marston as he tracks down the last remaining members of the notorious Van der Linde Gang in the PC debut of the critically acclaimed predecessor to Red Dead Redemption 2.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $24.99. That was November 2025. It has been discounted 16 times in the 2 years tracked here, typically at 40 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 8 days ago. $13.23 is what it would take to make this a BANGER, and nothing in its history goes that low.
Value puts it in the top 25 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Red Dead Redemption 2 ($59.99, scores 70) beats it on value, while it beats Grand Theft Auto: Vice City – The Definitive Edition ($19.79, scores 59).
20 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 72 percent of the 1,970 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 17.6 hours; clearing it takes 47, which is 2.6 times the campaign.
The drop-off
87% start to 4% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
450 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 11:45 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Oh dear, such a masterpiece. I only played RDR2 before and finally got RDR1. I already loved RDR2 a lot and now seeing the roots of the game is just beautiful. :D Great game series. Loved it a lot!
Because the story is a direct continuation of RDR2, I'm sure it's great in that department. But god is it hard to go from RDR2 to this, big downgrade. But that just shows how much Rockstar improved in only 8 years.
Such a peak ass game. Not as good as the masterpiece that is Red Dead Redemption 2 in my opinion, but story wise it gets pretty close. I would actually recommend playing the 2nd one before this since it makes you have a more personal connection to the characters in this one. 10/10 would recommend
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Red Dead Redemption scores 62/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2668510/red-dead-redemptionReviews 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 Sep 10, price as of Oct 1.
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