Sniper Elite 4
Worth it · Shooter · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $59.99, a BANGER if it drops to $35.27.
- Length
- 10.7h
- Value
- $5.61/hr
- Reviews
- 91% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, AMD Radeon HD 7870 (2GB) or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 (2GB). Windows only.
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What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $5.99, set in April 2022. It has been discounted 58 times in the 10 years tracked here, typically at 85 percent off, with about 8 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 2 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 8 weeks. The math puts its BANGER price at $35.27. The record reaches that level 57 times.
On value it sits in the top 9 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 87 percent. Among the games closest to it, Sniper Elite 5 ($49.99, scores 41) and Sniper Elite 3 ($29.99, scores 47) both come in lower.
The press gave it 78; the people who bought it give it 91 percent. A 13-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data puts 69 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 15 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written September 2024 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 66 percent of the 3,770 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
10.7 hours to finish it, 45 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 4.2 times the campaign.
9 years after release it still had 541 people in it at once.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 10.7 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
69% start to 69% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements
Players
541 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
I would still recommend getting the game on a sale. I love Sniper Elite, but this is the weakest entry in the series imo. This was the first game to add suppressors, which is both historically inaccurate and dumbs down the gameplay. You don't really need to plan your approach quite as much, choose when to fire and when not to, or set up mines and escape routes if you do decide to fire your rifle, you can just click...
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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Sniper Elite 4 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/312660/sniper-elite-4The 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 12, price as of Sep 24.
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