Project Warlock
Fair · Roguelike · 2018
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $12.00. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 6.5h
- Value
- $1.85/hr
- Reviews
- 87% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 560 (1GB) or AMD Radeon HD 6950, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
Project Warlock is a first-person shooter that fans of Doom, Hexen, and Wolfenstein cannot miss. It serves you an exploding cocktail of bullets, spells, and monsters. Battle through 60 levels of non-stop action, packed with bloodthirsty enemies and challenging bosses.
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
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.20. That was May 2025. It has been discounted 75 times in the 8 years tracked here, typically at 77 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales.
On value it sits in the top 30 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 68 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, DOOM 64 ($4.99, scores 87) beats it on value, while it beats Project Warlock II ($16.99, scores 49).
The press gave it 78; the people who bought it give it 87 percent. A 9-point gap in the buyer's favour.
14 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 68 percent of the 880 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 19 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 6.5 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 14, 2.1 times as much.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 6.5 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
54% start to 14% finishA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
4 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 04:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
you can find better boomer shooters out there. only the last chapter was fun to play, it had really a lot of enemies and you use your whole arsenal. but rest of the game, esp the first chapter are pretty dull - levels are mostly one-floored, not a lot of enemies, and a lot of heals and ammo at the same time. secrets are easy to find and do not pose anything interesting - you just bump and shoot into walls and find...
Kinda fun if you wanna turn your brain off, but too many noticeable bugs (e.g. audio that keeps replaying, holes in the map requiring you to reset, map softlocks if you accidentally move out of an elevator).
This game is quite good, specially if you like fast paced shooters. The only problem I encountered is that, after finishing a level, if you minimize the window then you just lost all the level. The game freezes when you open up again, forcing you to close it. When you open, you appear at the start of that same level. It happened three times and I quited.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Project Warlock scores 66/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/893680/project-warlockReviews 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 1.
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