Ravenfield
Fair · Shooter · 2017 · Early Access
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
A BANGER at $6.40, only fair at $17.99.
- Length
- 5.3h
- Value
- $3.39/hr
- Reviews
- 97% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel HD 4000, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Fight upon the Ravenfield together with your Blue allies! Take down those pesky Reds using helicopters, tanks, guns, and active ragdoll physics!
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
March 2021 is where it bottomed out, at $5.09. 40 discounts in the 9 years on record. They run about 34 percent off, roughly 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 12 weeks. Past sales have already crossed the $6.40 BANGER line once.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 17 percent on value. It is pricier than 67 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead ($19.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats GROUND BRANCH ($29.99, scores 41).
26 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 83 percent of the 3,155 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 5.3 hours. Doing everything runs 11, 2.1 times as long.
It came out 9 years ago and 617 were still playing it at the last check.
Players
617 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 watched Baronvongames play this game when I was 12. And now as a grown man I get to play this game. Its just as good as the videos
For this game being as old as it actually is, it still holds up great. The code isn't a total disaster and its actually pretty fun due to its customization and modding support. The npc pathfinding isn't actually half bad unlike some other games. Only critique is that its certainly able to bug out sometimes. Nothing game-breaking but... just funny stuff. Like vehicles spawning upside down and then still driving as if...
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.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Ravenfield scores 66/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/636480/ravenfieldThe 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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