Colt Canyon
Worth it · Roguelike · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $14.99.
- Length
- 5h
- Value
- $3.00/hr
- Reviews
- 88% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.
Shoot your way through a hostile canyon full of hidden treasures, weapons, obstacles and all kinds of bloodthirsty scum! Colt Canyon is a stylish pixel art shooter with roguelike elements and real-time combat where you save your kidnapped partner from the ruthless bandits.
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
August 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $1.49. 65 discounts in the 6 years on record. They run about 80 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 24 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 62 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 72 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Super Amazing Wagon Adventure ($2.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats STRAFE: Gold Edition ($14.99, scores 30).
1 of the 448 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 311 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 20 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 5 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 49, 9.7 times as much.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 5 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
72% start to 6% finishA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
7 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 01:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
nice graphics and idea, I'm terrible at the game but its still enjoyable if you take a break from it every now and again, this would be extremely tuff as an open world story game ngl.
I got this game when it was a 1$. I can tell you with confidence, it's worth 15$. Similarities to Nuclear Throne in that the list of upgrades is on the smaller end for a rogue, but the addition of many characters with baked-in abbilities allows for more build varieties. Secrets hidden in most levels encourage exploration. You don't feel pressured to scour every inch on your first playthrough, since you can backtrack...
This has become my second favorite twin stick of all time. I haven't had this much fun sticking a shotgun into a guy's chest since SYNTHETIK. I liked it so much I got 100% in achievements, even got the foil badge, and I never do that. The combat is fantastic, I love how brutal, visceral and satisfying it is to dodge roll while doing an active reload then shooting your bolt action through three bandits. Or making...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Cite this score
Colt Canyon scores 70/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/940710/colt-canyonReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base 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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