Project: Snowblind

Project: Snowblind

Skip · Shooter · 2007

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 42, under the fair line, at $5.99.

Length
5.6h 6.8h to 100%
Value
$1.07/hr
Reviews
76% of 774 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

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

Raising the score
Value$1.07/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Holding it back
Reviews76% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds2 of 409 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Experience the dramatic intensity of the frontlines of a war through the eyes of the first of a new breed of super soldiers in this gritty and epic first-person action game. An augmented super-soldier must stop a renegade regime from eradicating the civilized world. Hong Kong, 2065. 2nd Lt.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Windows only.

The value story

Across all 88 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 85 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 50 percent on value. It is cheaper than 70 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, RoboCop: Rogue City ($39.99, scores 55) beats it on value, while it beats Chaser ($4.99, scores 29).

More about Project: Snowblind

Of the 409 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 59 percent of the 250 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 35 percent of everything written about it.

What players say

This is an absolutely embarrassing nothingburger of a game. The story is charmless white noise, and the only thing Deus Ex about it is the stiffest, most lifeless gunplay known to man. And boy, did they get some mileage out of that one Chinese temple home base level - it's like a third of the entire thing. I love this obscure early-2000s shooter garbage, and even I probably should have skipped this one. Wait, what...
SilentfogNot recommendedafter 8.5hJul 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
TL;DR: What supposed to be a Deus Ex spin-offs, turned into something else. Very good game with technical issues on PC. Technical TL;DR: It's buggy. Go to PCGamingWiki for more details. Summary: Previously played on PlayStation 2 back in the day. Project Snowblind developed by Crystal Dynamics, started off as a Deus Ex game, but turn into a new game, with Deus Ex DNA (Going from vents, skipping enemies in some...
RAZELIGHTNot recommendedafter 3.6hJul 2026Read on Steam
Great game from my childhood. Still as janky as it was back then. And while I'm not a keyboard gamer, enough fiddling with Steam's controller input overrides and it is playable with a gamepad.
B0nehead0023Recommendedafter 5.4hJul 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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Project: Snowblind scores 42/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/7010/project-snowblind
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Reviews 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 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players0
Critics76
Players76
Metacritic critics · 774 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperCrystal Dynamics
PublisherSquare Enix
GenreShooter
Released2007
Players150Kowners, SteamSpy estimate