Sniper Elite
Skip · Shooter · 2009
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $7.99.
- Length
- 13.1h
- Value
- $0.61/hr
- Reviews
- 76% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, GeForce2 32Mb or equivalent, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
As World War II draws to a close, the first covert battles of the Cold War begin. Caught in the life and death struggle between Soviets and Germans in war-torn Berlin, you control the fate of a lone American OSS Sniper.
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The value story
June 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $0.95. 76 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 8 weeks apart. 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.
On value it sits in the top 40 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 61 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Sniper Elite 4 ($59.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats Sniper Elite 5 ($49.99, scores 41).
This site sampled 788 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 10 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 56 percent of the 1,014 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 29 percent of everything written about it.
Players
21 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 came here to be a sniper. Instead, I got a full-time job managing my frustration. Somehow I still finished it.
Even if a war ends with the death of its leader, fear, hatred, and the lust for power don't die with that person. They can always return in new forms if people allow ego, anger, or division to control their hearts. Maybe that's simply the nature of this world-or perhaps it's the Creator's design. Either way... 🤔 So... are you ready? 😅
Not a good game. You can definetely play only from the V2 onwards and lose nothing. The game is unfair and unbalanced. There are bots that spawn out of nowhere in an area you just cleared for no reason, and they always know your location 100% of the time no matter if you remained stealthy the entire mission. On top of that, the ballistics are unrealistic and linear, and the scope doesnt scales up the bullet drop...
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 scores 47/100 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/3700/sniper-eliteThe 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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