American Fugitive
Skip · Shooter · 2019
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 34, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 9.2h
- Value
- $2.17/hr
- Reviews
- 75% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce GT 460 (1024 MB) / Radeon 7770 (1024 MB), 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
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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 $1.99. That was May 2023. 66 discounts in the 7 years on record. They run about 80 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 70 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Retro City Rampage™ DX ($14.99, scores 49) beats it on value, while it beats Rustler (Grand Theft Horse) ($24.99, scores 29).
66 from critics against 75 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 9 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 9.2-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 578 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 69 percent of the 446 reviews written there were positive, against 75 percent overall, and those are 23 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 9.2 hours. Doing everything runs 24, 2.6 times as long.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 9.2 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
79% start to 9% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 9.2-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
8 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 16:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
For a game that cost a couple of quid, it gave me a good 40hrs of game play. It was also bug tidy; just getting thrown out of the tank a couple of times. I'd defo buy an American Fugitive 2.
This game is a dream come true for GTA 1 fans. It features modern graphics, improved gameplay, and such a decent narrative but what makes it stand out is the sheer number of things you can do. You aren't just limited to carjacking and shooting; this game offers many more well-built gameplay mechanics, like robbing houses and stores, changing clothes with anyone, using tools to open and smash windows, climbing onto a...
The gameplay with the wanted system was fun at the start but started getting annoying at the end and at the end the controls stop working if you die in the mission where you have to capture Nicky Two Shoes
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
American Fugitive scores 34/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/934780/american-fugitiveReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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