Hard Reset Redux

Hard Reset Redux

Skip · Shooter · 2016

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 42, under the fair line, at $19.99.

Length
6.2h
Value
$3.22/hr
Reviews
81% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
6.2h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
17h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$3.22
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$19.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
81%
2,392 reviews, as of Sep 26
Metacritic
73
critic score
Players
150K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2016

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 512 MB NVIDIA GeForce 8800GS / ATI Radeon HD 3870 or better, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.

Hard Reset Redux is an action-packed and hardcore single-player shooter which embraces the best qualities that the genre has it offer. It includes over-the-top destruction, loads of enemies, great weapon variety, a challenging campaign and a beautifully realized cyberpunk setting.
Description from the Steam store page.

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$3.22/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews81% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 80% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
Length6.2 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach150K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 478 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

The value story

October 2018 is where it bottomed out, at $1.99. Its cuts run 90 percent off as a rule. There have been 88 in the 10 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 50 percent on value. It is pricier than 74 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, RoboCop: Rogue City ($39.99, scores 55) beats it on value, while it beats Call of Duty®: Infinite Warfare ($59.99, scores 7).

73 from critics against 81 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.

1 of the 478 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 64 percent of the 332 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.

The main story runs 6.2 hours. Doing everything runs 17, 2.7 times as long.

The drop-off

68% start to 2% 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

Players

2 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 07:50 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

7/10 This game has more personality than most AAA games. A vibrant cyberpunk, run down city world full of neon lights that stand out against the ravaged metal grey city landscape. a sky box that is always busy with flying vehicles, lightning, rain and spotlights. enemies that can be fun but basic to fight against with very satisfying and imaginative weaponry. talking of which, 2 guns, 1 bullet and 1 energy, that...
RetroCimmRecommendedafter 4.0hAug 2026Read on Steam
Amazing, amazing game, One of the greatest FPS games ever made. I am still in shock. Get this game people. It's that good.
Stop NermalRecommendedafter 6.7hJul 2026Read on Steam
I love it love it love it! Every few years this game just pops up in my head again because the vibe and satisfying gameplay is just so memorable, and I think this is one of the most underrated modern Boomer Shooters ever, before the genre made its comeback with the big hitters of DUSK and Amid Evil, which could be Doom 2016's fault, which is of course also an amazing game that helped the genre make the comeback it...
StronkiTonkiRecommendedafter 14hJul 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

Cite this score

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Hard Reset Redux scores 42/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/407810/hard-reset-redux
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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 26, price as of Oct 1.

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Critics vs players+8
Critics
73
Players
81
Critics and players agree on this one.
Metacritic critics · 2,392 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperFlying Wild Hog
PublisherGood Shepherd Entertainment
GenreShooter
Released2016
Achievements115