Outlaws of the Old West

Outlaws of the Old West

Skip · Roguelike · 2019 · Early Access

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The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 4, under the fair line, at $19.99.

Length
5.3h
Value
$3.77/hr
Reviews
59% of 6,297 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
Reviews59% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach350K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
Early accessUnfinished
Still in development, a small confidence discount until 1.0
For context
Value$3.77/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds6 of 800 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

Outlaws of the Old West is a massively multiplayer survival MMO with a huge world, thousands of items and a modular building system. Survive the wild, build your own homestead, defeat villainous bandits and work with others to tame the Wild West.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 660 GTX or AMD Radeon 7850 HD series, 20 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

66 discounts in the 8 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Tinkerlands ($9.09, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats GRAV ($19.99, scores 2).

More about Outlaws of the Old West

This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 6 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written November 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 25 percent of the 778 reviews written there were positive, against 59 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.

What players say

I would not recommend this game. I purchased it when it first released. I had high hope for this game, was great at first. DEV's did some things. But then NOTHING, no updates or anything since OCT. of 2020. Now you can't even play it on windows 11 with out shutting down some security on you windows (Which I am not going to do) Sad really, this could of been a great game with some work. Has great detail, Large area...
OrrageNot recommendedafter 1620hAug 2026early accessRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Note: The last update made by the developers was over 6 years ago. The information and timeline described by the developers here may no longer be up to date. This says it all no need to to say more. Such a waste of of money and time. Had potential...
DreDoginNot recommendedafter 100hJun 2026early accessRead on Steam
Outlaws of the Old West is only my second major survival game, and I have nothing but positive things to say about it. The scale of this game is massive. I started out crafting primitive tools just to build a fire, and now I have lighted brick buildings and a horse to navigate the world. The map is huge and diverse, featuring everything from snow-covered mountains and lush green areas to vast plains and deserts...
RottenFuhrerRecommendedafter 83h3 found this helpfulearly accessRead on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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Outlaws of the Old West scores 4/100 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/840800/outlaws-of-the-old-west
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, 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

DeveloperVirtual Basement LLC
PublisherWandering Wizard
GenreRoguelike
Released2019
Players350Kowners, SteamSpy estimate