West of Loathing
BANGER · RPG · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
A BANGER today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 69% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$10.99BANGER
Typical seasonal cut
$3.4069% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.39/hr
- ReviewsS
- 98% of 10,332
- Critics
- 87 players 11 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% RPG
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.40 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 7.9h
- To 100%
- 20.5h 2.6x the story
- Finish
- 8% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 28
Price and sales
- Sales
- 56 on record
- Typical cut
- 42% off
- Steam low
- $3.40 June 2025
- Sale every
- 49d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 38 now
- Cheaper than
- 36% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
58% start to 8% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 56 discounts in the 9 years tracked, the median cut is 42 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 64 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling ($19.99, scores 96) beats it on value, while it beats Shadows Over Loathing ($22.99, scores 78).
$12.35 is where it would stop being a BANGER. It is priced at $10.99.
More about West of Loathing
87 from critics against 98 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 8 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 7.9-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 438 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 88 percent of the 454 reviews written there were positive, against 98 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 7.9 hours; clearing it takes 21, which is 2.6 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 7.9 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $3.40 (69% off). Predictions like this were right 87% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
[8/10] ★★★★☆ West of Loathing is worth the full price. Despite the goofy presentation of the game, the game takes itself somewhat seriously with story beats and worldbuilding, which just amplifies the goofiness even better, it's very sincere in its humor which makes the game very enjoyable. The combat is fun, gameplay has cool side quests and areas to check out, and the game is paced out pretty well. It's a fun...
1 more review
Of all the Loathing games West of Loathing is by far my favorite. If your looking for endless replayability Kingdom of Loathing is the best of the the three (and also free which is nice), if your looking for mechanical complexity in the combat Shadows over Loathing has the edge, but if you are looking for humor West of Loathing is the best of the three hands down. Asymmetric truly channeled every bit of comedy and...
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About the game
West of Loathing — a slapstick comedy stick-figure wild west adventure role-playing game.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 512 MB, 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
West of Loathing scores 87/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/597220/west-of-loathingReviews 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 Oct 14, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.