Call of Juarez
Fair · Shooter · 2007
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 7.8h
- Value
- $1.28/hr
- Reviews
- 81% positive
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Windows only.
Call of Juarez is an epic adventure western themed FPS game. The player alternately assumes the roles of two distinct, antagonistic characters: a sneaking fugitive Billy and his hunter the reverend Ray.
What drives the score
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The value story
May 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $0.99. 115 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 32 percent of the games it competes with. Among the games that feel like it, Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood ($9.99, scores 65) beats it on value, while it beats Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus ($39.99, scores 46).
Critics scored it 72. Players sit 9 points higher at 81 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 10 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 47 percent of the 495 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
Players
14 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 just such a wonderful game! Not only for the nostalgia for those of us who played it originally, but also just as a great story, with very fun and varied gameplay! Highly recommend it. For new players, a couple quick notes: there's some easy resolution and band fixes you can apply, and be also warned that you may need to run the game from the CoJ.exe directly for an infamous cave section. Super easy and...
"I bring not peace but a sword" In barren wasteland that is western based games a small polish studio set out to make an ambitious adventure. One where you play as both the hunter Reberend Ray, a priest with a violent past on a quest of vengeance and revenge for his brother's death. And the hunted Billy Candle, an ostracized coward who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. The game alternates in...
I regret to say that while the story is decently interesting, the gameplay that guides it doesn't hold up. The game's riddled with tutorial popups, where some organic direction and in-world hints could've saved the player from being taken out of the experience just to be told, instead of shown, or rather forced to look. On the other side, in some parts of the game where a tutorial popup would've helped, I was...
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.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Call of Juarez scores 54/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3020/call-of-juarezThe 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 Aug 1, price as of Sep 24.
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