Back 4 Blood
Skip · Roguelike · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $59.99.
- Length
- 12.1h
- Value
- $4.96/hr
- Reviews
- 69% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti OR AMD Radeon RX 570, 40 GB of storage. Windows only.
Back 4 Blood is a thrilling cooperative first-person shooter from the creators of the critically acclaimed Left 4 Dead franchise. Experience the intense 4 player co-op narrative campaign, competitive multiplayer as human or Ridden, and frenetic gameplay that keeps you in the action.
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $2.99. That was December 2024. Its cuts run 90 percent off as a rule. There have been 35 in the 6 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. 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 6 weeks.
It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 83 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Arizona Sunshine® VR Legacy ($14.99, scores 38) beats it on value, while it beats F.E.A.R. 3 ($19.99, scores 22).
77 on Metacritic, 69 percent from players. A gap this way round is usually launch damage or a slow decline.
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 11 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written December 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 43 percent of the 4,416 reviews written there were positive, against 69 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 12.1 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 98, 8.1 times as much.
It came out 5 years ago and 1.3K were still playing it at the last check.
The drop-off
93% start to 2% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
1,288 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
Really nice successor to the Left 4 Dead 2. After the initial issues, the game was made mature and real fun. It's well balanced now. Card system is a bit challenging in the beginning, but that's what make it replayable over and over again. A strong recommendation from me.
I've put over 1,500+ hrs into this on PS alone. This game has been pretty fun solo or with others. (Yes others are still online its not completely dead...Yet..) The best way i could describe this game is fair/good if your bored and need something to keep the thumbs warm. It's got good gunplay, some replay to it thanks to the card system, and enough challenge due to corruption cards to keep you engaged. A lot of...
Mid tier game, garnered mid tier reception, did some mid tier patches, continued to be mid tier.
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.
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Back 4 Blood scores 24/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/924970/back-4-bloodThe 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 Sep 14, price as of Sep 24.
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