El Hijo - A Wild West Tale
Skip · Strategy · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$19.99Skip
On its price record
$10.41Fair
- Length
- 5.5h 14.8h to 100%
- Value
- $3.63/hr
- Reviews
- 81% of 232 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $10.41 or less.
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
About the game
El Hijo is an exciting spaghetti-western stealth game, in which you guide a 6-year-old boy on his quest to find his mother.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce 560 or higher, AMD Radeon HD 5830 or higher, 3.4 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 48 times in the 6 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 26 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 75 percent. Among the games that feel like it, A Monster's Expedition ($19.99, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats Influent Language Learning Game ($19.99, scores 24).
More about El Hijo - A Wild West Tale
Steam's global achievement data puts about 17 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 5.5-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.
5.5 hours to finish it, 15 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.7 times the campaign.
The drop-off
81% start to 17% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
What players say
A very charming and entertaining game. Not overly complex and more mechanics to combine would be great, but overall I had a lot of fun with it. The style looks very good and the stealth is satisfying. The story is also simple, but good. There are a couple of levels that are just a pain to play, like The Farm with the dogs or The Escape with the lorry race. The controls are really not tight enough for the dog's...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
While I enjoyed the game, sometimes the maps feel too crowded, and maybe too open to know the right way, maybe allowing for unlimited roam with the bird watch mode would ease that confusion. Sometimes one of the far enemies will spot you even out of their respective zones, and that frustrates as a player. The game does smart things with his mechanics, like shooting locks to bring down curtains, or free children that...
Wonky controls, especially when aiming. Bad Stealth and AI. The biggest culprits are the coyotes with a large line of sight and detection radius. Overall just feels like a chore when playing.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
El Hijo - A Wild West Tale scores 43/100 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/853050/el-hijo-a-wild-west-taleReviews 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 30, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.