Western Press
Skip · Action · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 23, under the fair line, at $0.79.
- Length
- 0.5h 2.5h to 100%
- Value
- $1.58/hr
- Reviews
- 68% of 293 positive
Full price
Today
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Based on a true story, Western Press is the most historically accurate frontier dueling game available for PC and Mac. Probably. Up to 16 players (or bots) compete in a tournament of 1v1 sprints to press a random string of ten buttons the fastest.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 256MB of Video Memory, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
It has been discounted 95 times in the 11 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 80 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today's $0.79 at 84 percent off still sits 46 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
It is less well reviewed than 79 percent of its genre. Timberman ($0.49, scores 89) outscores it, and so does Duck Game ($12.99, scores 92). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Western Press
Steam's global achievement data puts about 8 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 0.5-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.
0.5 hours to finish it, 3 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 5.0 times the campaign.
At 0.5 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
41% start to 8% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
What players say
Essentially cr4p where you shoot people and who's first to type specific key combination wins. Visuals are ok though but gameplay is not.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Western Press scores 23/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/377360/western-pressReviews 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 Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.