Return to Castle Wolfenstein
BANGER · Shooter · 2007
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $4.99.
- Length
- 8h
- Value
- $0.62/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
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Windows only.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.24. That was June 2017. It has been discounted 71 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 60 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 3 percent on value. It is cheaper than 73 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 91 percent. The nearest things to it, Call of Duty: United Offensive ($19.99, scores 53) and Wolfenstein: The Old Blood ($19.99, scores 58), are both worse buys on this math.
The math says it holds its tier up to $7.46, and you are being asked for $4.99.
This site sampled 644 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 5 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 1,825 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 23 percent of everything written about it.
Players
26 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Install RealRTCW if you want to play this game. It's a free add-on, but you have to own this first. It brings the game lightyears forward in graphic quality and playability. There are some settings that you should change in steams target box for this game: "+set r_mode -1 +set r_fullscreen 1 +set r_customwidth 1920 +set r_customheight 1080 +set r_customaspect 2 +set com_hunkMegs 512 +set com_zoneMegs 96" without...
Classic FPS. The very first PC game I purchased back when it came out. Still love it though and I would imagine the younger peeps not enjoying it as it is pretty old. The story is cool and the pace is fast. It's a boomer shooter for sure.
The manual load feature is really screwed up. It's either delayed, loads up the wrong saved game, or just crashes out to windows.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Return to Castle Wolfenstein scores 89/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/9010/return-to-castle-wolfensteinThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 3, price as of Sep 24.
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