Necromunda: Underhive Wars
Skip · Action · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 3, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 18h
- Value
- $1.11/hr
- Reviews
- 56% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 2 GB VRAM, GeForce GTX 660 / Radeon R9 270, 40 GB of storage. Windows only.
Deep below the hive cities of Necromunda, lead, customize and grow your gang in the twisted tunnels of the dystopian Underhive. Face rival gangs in tactical gunfights for power, wealth, survival, and honor.
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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.99, set in May 2024. Its cuts run 85 percent off as a rule. There have been 60 in the 6 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Total War: WARHAMMER III ($59.99, scores 36) beats it on value, while it beats Blood Bowl 3 ($29.99, scores 0).
Steam's global achievement data puts 20 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 11 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written December 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 32 percent of the 389 reviews written there were positive, against 56 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
83% start to 20% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
What players say
Painfully slow combat, with no options to speed up animations or movement. If you want combat to take a reasonable amount of time, you'll need to use CheatEngine to speedhack the enemy turns. Stupid AI that will see enemies run around out in the open, ignore cover, or just cower in a corner and never move anywhere. Then there are the scripted story missions, which you MUST complete if you wish to unlock...
The idea and theme is very good, the visuals are good, but combat clunckyness and jankyness is a big deal breaker, AI bugs also doesnt help. At the moment cant really recommend the game even as hardcore warhammer universe fan the combat and bugs are a big deal breaker. Hoping that in the future if second instalment will come of this game it will have all the bugs and combat fixed.
If you are a fan of Necromunda or Warhammer 40k I think this is worth picking up on sale. The visuals are great and you can have plenty of hours of fun building up a small gang through the open-ended operations mode. However, it fails to live up to it's potential because the enemy AI is severely lacking, which makes the game far too easy. Most missions are won because you're focusing your gang against a handful of...
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Cite this score
Necromunda: Underhive Wars scores 3/100 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/566440/necromunda-underhive-warsReviews 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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