THE QUIET MAN™

THE QUIET MAN™

Skip · Action · 2018

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 0, under the fair line, at $14.99.

Length
3h 6h to 100%
Value
$5.00/hr
Reviews
38% of 707 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

Holding it back
Value$5.00/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews38% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 40% after the small-sample adjustment
DRMDenuvo
Denuvo copy protection, a small friction discount
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 117 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

THE QUIET MAN™ delivers an immersive story driven cinematic action experience seamlessly blending high-production live action, realistic CG and pulse-pounding action gameplay.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, AMD Radeon R7 370 / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti, 40 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

Across all 48 discounts in the 8 years tracked, the median cut is 80 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

It is pricier than 85 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 99 percent. On the same math FINAL FANTASY XVI ($49.99, scores 49) and Like a Dragon: Ishin! ($39.99, scores 48) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.

More about THE QUIET MAN™

Inside the two-hour refund window, 19 percent of the 193 reviews written there were positive, against 38 percent overall, and those are 32 percent of everything written about it.

The main story runs 3 hours. Doing everything runs 6, 2.0 times as long.

It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 3 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.

The drop-off

75% start to 3% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

What players say

listen, if you're reading this review and questioning if you should spend the $2.99 this game goes on sale for, I'll just sum it up like this: i genuinely cannot recommend it enough
floridalonghairRecommendedafter 8.3hJul 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
‎I'm a sucker for beat 'em ups. ‎Been in the trenches of the side-scrolling wars since Spartan X, punched my way through Double Dragon, duke it up in Final Fight, survived the neon grime of Bare Knuckle, and even mastered the chaotic "Wait, why am I holding a grandfather clock?" energy of Dynamite Deka. ‎I live for this genre and horror aesthetic the most, among many others. ‎ ‎But this game? This game is a...
One Horror LoverRecommendedafter 2.7hMay 2026Read on Steam
Really boring game with a silent gameplay! All the fights are the same repitition without any new challenges. Avoid it... since it is one of the worst non-sense action game I have ever played!
GameLinguist™Not recommendedafter 5.0hApr 2026Read on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
THE QUIET MAN™ scores 0/100 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/790540/the-quiet-man
Embed the live badge

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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperSquare Enix
PublisherSquare Enix
GenreAction
Released2018
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements13