RUNNING WITH RIFLES
Worth it · Shooter · 2015
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $14.99.
- Length
- 20h
- Value
- $0.75/hr
- Reviews
- 88% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVidia Geforce 6600, ATI x800, Intel HD3000 or equivalent with 256MB VRAM, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
RUNNING WITH RIFLES is a top-down tactical shooter with open world RPG elements. In RWR, you join the ranks of an army as a common soldier, just like the thousands around you.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $2.24, set in June 2024. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 98 in the 13 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 9 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 64 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 78 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Door Kickers 2: Task Force North ($24.99, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats Foxhole ($29.99, scores 53).
Critics scored it 78. Players sit 10 points higher at 88 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 3 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2022 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 65 percent of the 1,198 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
20 hours to finish it, 46 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.3 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
58% start to 1% 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
165 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
This is a fun, enjoyable top down shooter. I have played the campaign maps and they are awesome. I also like the progression system, it gives me reasonable goals to aim for. Fighting the AI enemies is fun and challenging without seeming to be overly grindy or frustrating. Be sure to check out the single player/co-op maps the have as well. The one feature I absolutely adore is my friendly AI team mates in the Jeep...
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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RUNNING WITH RIFLES scores 76/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/270150/running-with-riflesThe 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 13, price as of Sep 24.
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