Return to Castle Wolfenstein
BANGER · Shooter · 2007
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $4.99. Typically $1.99 in seasonal sales. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.62/hr
- ReviewsS
- 93% of 9,395
- Critics
- 88 players 5 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 2% Shooter
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Time and effort
- Main story
- 8h
- To 100%
- 10.9h 1.4x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 72 on record
- Typical cut
- 60% off
- Steam low
- $1.24 June 2017
- Sale every
- 47d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 89 now
- Recent reviews
- 93% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 72% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 92% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 72 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 60 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 2 percent. It is cheaper than 72 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. The nearest things to it, Call of Duty: United Offensive ($19.99, scores 53) and Wolfenstein: The Old Blood ($19.99, scores 59), are both worse buys on this math.
The math says it holds its tier up to $7.42.
More about Return to Castle Wolfenstein
This site sampled 647 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 1,835 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 23 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
WHO THE HELL BALANCED THE UBERSOLDIER BOSS FIGHT the idea of the game is cool, and it has a ton of cool set pieces and it's a must play, but a boss fight that you only win by cheesing is bad game design both in 2021 and in 2001
2 more reviews
★★★★☆ Very good! Action I was surprised by this game! I really like fast, adrenaline-filled FPS games, but with a charged atmosphere of horror that feels as realistic as possible, without complications. I had never been encouraged to try this game, since it seemed more like a typical military game and in the end it was a little like that but not that much, for my tastes: It feels realistic (more or less), but not...
First ever Wolfenstein game I've ever played, pretty good campaign, though gets really annoying when reaching the labs sections, the lopers could've been nerfed cause they weren't really fun to fight against, same with the super soldiers, especially when lacking some panzerfausts. Weapon variety are nice, but why giving us the thompson when you barely find ammo for it? I had to redeem its irrelevancy by using it to...
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About the game
World War II rages and nations fall. The Nazis are twisting science and the occult into an army capable of annihilating the Allies once and for all. As US Army Ranger William “B.J.” Blazkowicz, pierce the black heart of the Third Reich and stop them...or die trying.
Minimum specs
Windows only.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Return to Castle Wolfenstein scores 89/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/9010/return-to-castle-wolfensteinReviews 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 Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.