Sniper: Ghost Warrior
Skip · Shooter · 2010
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $7.99.
- Length
- 5.1h
- Value
- $1.57/hr
- Reviews
- 58% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 256 MB RAM compatible with DX10.0 or DX9.0c, Shader Model 3.0, 6.5 GB of storage. Windows only.
As a Ghost Warrior, an elite sniper in a highly trained special ops unit, your unique skills in the art of stalking, target detection, surveillance and shooting accuracy will determine mission success.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
November 2019 is where it bottomed out, at $1.03. 46 discounts in the 13 years on record. They run about 80 percent off, roughly 4 weeks apart.
It is cheaper than 61 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 89 percent. On the same math Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 ($9.99, scores 42) and Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 ($19.99, scores 18) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
Steam's global achievement data puts 24 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; 8 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2023 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 39 percent of the 1,546 reviews written there were positive, against 58 percent overall, and those are 27 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 5.1 hours; clearing it takes 14, which is 2.7 times the campaign.
The drop-off
60% start to 24% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
18 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
Playing Sniper: Ghost Warrior again feels like going straight back to my childhood. 🎮 This game has such a nostalgic feeling for me. The atmosphere, missions, stealth, and satisfying sniper gameplay still make it genuinely pleasurable to play even after all these years. It may not be the newest or most technically impressive game out there, but it has a special charm that brings back a lot of memories. One of those...
The game is a bit old though its kinda fun to be honesty. The story is there but meh, at least some sneaking sections are decent but the "assault" sections are bit painful as sometimes you dont even know if you are hitting something with the assault rifle. So do I recommend it... well yes, its a game to buy during sale and probably finish it in a weekend alongisde its collectibles... so it gets a 7.5/10.
Every aspect of this game sucks. Yes, everything. The only bits that are even decent are the handful of missions you get to properly play as a sniper, trying to be all stealthy with a suppressed rifle. Those are a solid 6/10. Most of the sniper missions have you playing like a COD quickscope kid trying to put together a kill comp to try and get into faze clan, and that makes up the better half of the game. The worst...
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Sniper: Ghost Warrior scores 7/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/34830/sniper-ghost-warriorThe 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 23.
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