Hunt: Showdown 1896
Skip · Multiplayer · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $29.99.
- Reviews
- 74% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 1650 Super or AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT, with a minimum of 4GB of VRAM, 75 GB of storage. Windows only.
Hunt: Showdown 1896 is the brutally rewarding extraction shooter. Track twisted monsters and overcome ruthless PvP. Take bounties in corrupted backwaters lost to history. With a team, you might survive. Die with nothing or get out with everything.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $11.99, set in June 2026. It has been discounted 82 times in the 9 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 2 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 32 percent on value. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 62 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon® Wildlands ($9.99, scores 51) beats it on value, while it beats Marauders ($29.99, scores 20).
Of the 799 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 9 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 46 percent of the 7,424 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (cosmetic, currency); the score docks it lightly for that.
Still 6.3K concurrent players, 7 years in.
The drop-off
69% start to 2% rarestNo 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
6,300 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
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Hunt: Showdown 1896 scores 34/100 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/594650/hunt-showdown-1896The 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 Sep 10, price as of Sep 24.
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