Onward
Skip · Shooter · 2025
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $24.99.
- Length
- 3h
- Value
- $8.33/hr
- Reviews
- 68% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 970. Windows only.
Onward is the most immersive tactical VR shooter. Join your squad for a wide variety of competitive PvP, co-op PvE, and solo game modes, including intense multiplayer battles or 4-player co-op missions. Realistic weaponry and combat mechanics will push your survival and combat skills to their limit
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $12.49. That was June 2019. Its cuts run 40 percent off as a rule. There have been 40 in the 10 years tracked, about 9 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 73 percent. War of Rights ($29.99, scores 47) outscores it, and so does Hell Let Loose ($12.49, scores 66). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 9 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 43 percent of the 1,075 reviews written there were positive, against 68 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
Players
30 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
I used to say yes to this game because it felt more immersive and I loved doing the PvE. But since the developers have stopped updating it and handed updates off to mods it is not worth purchasing this game.
makes me sad what happened to this game. i havent tried to start it yet but the first hand experience i had when it became obvious they were targeting standalone headsets first made me really sad. game might not even work anymore on PCVR. game has not seen an update for a few years now. unfortunately i have to not recommend this, due to a lack of guaranteed future support from the dev.
i have the meta 3. I only have pavlo and forefront to compare from. but i would say this game is great and deserves a 2ndcoming in the future. it has couple PVE modes one that deals with waves and the other is more you progress and earn gear as you complete missions. the PVE mods has modes like protect the VIP and firefight mode and i think a few other game modes. they have a good selection of guns with 4 different...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Onward scores 15/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/496240/onwardThe 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 Aug 1, price as of Sep 24.
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