Rot Gut

Rot Gut

Skip · Shooter · 2016

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 49, under the fair line, at $2.99.

Length
0.4h 0.4h to 100%
Value
$7.48/hr
Reviews
87% of 302 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 3 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 207 days ago.

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

Holding it back
Value$7.48/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews87% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 84% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 48 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Rot Gut is an action packed platformer set in America’s 1920’s Prohibition era. You take control of an agent who, to uncover their mysteries, goes on a mission to fight the city’s underground armed to the teeth organizations.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 500MB VRAM, 102 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.

The value story

It has been discounted 17 times in the 11 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 30 percent, about 18 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 30 weeks ago.

On value it sits in the top 42 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 88 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 65 percent. On the same math Warhammer 40,000: Shootas, Blood & Teef ($19.99, scores 65) and pureya ($5.99, scores 90) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.

More about Rot Gut

Inside the two-hour refund window, 88 percent of the 209 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 92 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

92% start to 57% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Rot Gut scores 49/100 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/395500/rot-gut
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Reviews 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.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperShotgun Surgeons
PublisherShotgun Surgeons
GenreShooter
Released2016
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements9