Far Cry® New Dawn
Skip · Shooter · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $7.99.
- Length
- 11.3h
- Value
- $0.71/hr
- Reviews
- 75% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 (2GB) or AMD Radeon R9 270X (2GB) or better, 30 GB of storage. Windows only.
Dive into a transformed vibrant post-apocalyptic Hope County, Montana, 17 years after a global nuclear catastrophe. Lead the fight against the Highwaymen, as they seek to take over the last remaining resources.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $3.99. That was June 2024. Its cuts run 80 percent off as a rule. There have been 65 in the 8 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today's $7.99 at 80 percent off still sits 100 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Take the discount away and it is a 30. With it, 43.
Value puts it in the top 44 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Far Cry® 2 ($2.99, scores 47) beats it on value, while it beats Arizona Sunshine® VR Legacy ($14.99, scores 38).
Steam's global achievement data says about 10 percent of players ever finish it. On an 11.3-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written January 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 44 percent of the 1,505 reviews written there were positive, against 75 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
11.3 hours to finish it, 29 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.6 times the campaign.
The drop-off
22% start to 10% finishMost players never reach the end. On an 11.3-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
215 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
Genuinely so overhated, the villains are NOT as bad as the comments have you believe; theyre rash arrogant and intentionally easy to hate, theyre children elevated to a high position in a post apocalyptic society with god complexes due to their status, their behavior makes total sense.
ASHES TO ASHES Far Cry New Dawn - Review Far Cry New Dawn returns to Hope County 17 years after the nuclear ending of Far Cry 5, transforming the familiar Montana setting into a bright post-apocalyptic wilderness. Revisiting places I already knew under completely different circumstances had genuine appeal. Unfortunately, compared to Far Cry 5, I found New Dawn to be a clear downgrade in gameplay, characters, and...
Defintely the worst Far Cry game i've ever played. Story feels tame and too short. Gameplay and upgrades are too repetitive.
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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Far Cry® New Dawn scores 43/100 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/939960/far-cry-new-dawnThe 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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