RUNNING WITH RIFLES
Worth it · Shooter · 2015
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $3.74.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.19/hr
- Reviews▼
- 88% of 16,806
- Critics
- 78 players 10 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 8% Shooter
Holding it back: Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 20h
- To 100%
- 45.9h 2.3x the story
- Achievements
- 45
Price and sales
- Sales
- 100 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $2.24 June 2024
- Sale every
- 36d last November 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 183 now
- Cheaper than
- 33% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 77% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
58% start to 1% rarestThis 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
The lowest price on record is $2.24, set in June 2024. Across all 100 discounts in the 13 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 5 weeks apart.
Its score puts it in the top 8 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 67 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 77 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Door Kickers 2: Task Force North ($24.99, scores 87) beats it on value, while it beats Foxhole ($29.99, scores 54).
More about RUNNING WITH RIFLES
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 October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 65 percent of the 1,197 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.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- 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 players say
You better be careful with what you write about the game in the forum or you will be banned. It's the first time I was banned for life form a forum on steam (I have been on steam for over 10 years). If you despise people that defend the CCP, don't buy this game. There are better ones out there.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Not worth buying unless on sale 50% or more. AI is terrible and nobody really playing this online. The manual is a fandom site, ffs.
like a top-down open world version of battlefield. has some decent overhaul mods, the combat and gameplay are simple and easy to understand but the AI is surprisingly good for what its main purpose is (ducking, diving behind cover, and returning fire). i find it oddly relaxing being a combat medic or running around as an engineer, and pretty fun being on the massive and chaotic frontlines. there's an odd element of...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
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.
Cite this score
RUNNING WITH RIFLES scores 76/100 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/270150/running-with-riflesReviews 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 6, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.