Far Cry® Primal
Worth it · Shooter · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $7.49.
- Length
- 15h
- Value
- $0.50/hr
- Reviews
- 86% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 (1GB VRAM) | AMD Radeon HD 5770 (1GB VRAM) or equivalent, 20 GB of storage. Windows only.
The award-winning Far Cry franchise returns with its innovative open world gameplay, bringing together massive beasts, breathtaking environments, and unpredictable savage encounters. Welcome to the Stone Age, a time of danger and adventure.
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
It has never been cheaper than $2.99. That was September 2025. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 90 in the 11 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today's $7.49 at 75 percent off still sits 151 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Take the discount away and it is a 57. With it, 71.
Value puts it in the top 12 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 74 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Far Cry 3 ($4.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats Far Cry® 4 ($5.99, scores 69).
The press gave it 74; the people who bought it give it 86 percent. A 12-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data says under 1 percent of players ever finish it. On a 15-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 9 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written December 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 51 percent of the 2,748 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 15 hours; clearing it takes 36, which is 2.4 times the campaign.
The drop-off
37% start to <1% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 15-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
235 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
"Predators are only prey without fear and with big teeth." 🦴 Far Cry Primal - A brutal prehistoric adventure that brings a fresh twist to Far Cry. 🪨 Setting & Atmosphere: Far Cry Primal takes a rather unusual approach for the series and introduces a fresh prehistoric setting. When I first saw the game, I already thought the idea of a Far Cry set in the Stone Age was really cool, and in my opinion, it was implemented...
Most challenging game I've completed, whoever designed 0 death hardcore, why? But also, thanks for thanking me after I completed it. 10/10 would not boot it up again tho
This is perhaps the most under-appreciated game Ubishaft has ever spit out of their wretched hole.
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Far Cry® Primal scores 71/100 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/371660/far-cry-primalThe 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 24.
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