Far Cry® Primal
Fair · Shooter · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 85% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$29.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$4.4985% offWorth it
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.00/hr
- Reviews▼
- 86% of 41,806
- Critics
- 74 players 12 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 28% Shooter
Holding it back: DRM, Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.49 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 15h
- To 100%
- 36.4h 2.4x the story
- Finish
- <1% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 55
Price and sales
- Sales
- 90 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $2.99 September 2025
- Sale every
- 36d last September 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 219 now
- Recent reviews
- 90% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 7% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 72% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
38% start to <1% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 90 discounts in the 11 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 28 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 72 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Far Cry 3 ($19.99, scores 68) beats it on value, while it beats Witch Hunt ($9.99, scores 56).
More about Far Cry® Primal
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 puts under 1 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 15-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 9 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written January 2026 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 52 percent of the 2,768 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.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
100% Complete | 53h at review I'm a big fan of the Far Cry series, and Primal remains one of my favourites. The change in formula while keeping those familiar Far Cry undertones makes for a refreshing take on the series, and it's a genre shift I'd love to see Ubisoft explore more. Oros is a beautiful world to explore, with the animal companions being one of the best additions. The story is fairly basic, but it makes...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
For A FarCry game it falls abit short from last or newer titles, it offers a big open world with base building mechanism and village upgrade style of story and overall its okay, the amount of creativity is truly one of the big things in the game, if its the map design, main story missions or the language they choose to implement to the "people" of the game. There is also a robust skill tree with many paths to choose...
By FAR the worst Far Cry game in the series. Boring & formulaic, with precisely one vaguely interesting character in the entire game. Avoid this one.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
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.
Cite this score
Far Cry® Primal scores 58/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/371660/far-cry-primalReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 6, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.