Hard Reset Extended Edition
Skip · Shooter · 2012
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Under the fair line today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 90% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$14.99Skip
Typical seasonal cut
$1.4990% offFair
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.11/hr
- Reviews▼
- 81% of 4,945
- Critics
- 73 players 8 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 40% Shooter
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $1.49 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 7.1h
- To 100%
- 25.8h 3.6x the story
- Achievements
- 115
Price and sales
- Sales
- 70 on record
- Typical cut
- 90% off
- Steam low
- $1.49 December 2015
- Sale every
- 48d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 1 now
- Cheaper than
- 33% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 58% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
83% start to 3% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
70 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 90 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 40 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 67 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Dystopia (free, scores 63) beats it on value, while it beats Hard Reset Redux ($19.99, scores 42).
More about Hard Reset Extended Edition
Critics scored it 73. Players sit 8 points higher at 81 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
2 of the 513 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 68 percent of the 902 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 24 percent of everything written about it.
7.1 hours to finish it, 26 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.6 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $1.49 (90% off). Predictions like this were right 92% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Pretty awesome game! it's an oldie? hell yeah but it rocks. You've 2 guns, the assault rifle aka (CLN Modular Assault Rifle) and plasma gun aka (N.R.G. weapon). You can add nade launcher, zoom, change the range, more magazine, more power for the blast of your plasma gun, etc. Smth excellent is that you don't need to reload at all, when you kill the enemies that are plentiful such as, robdoggies, gorillas, some mini...
1 more review, not recommended
Don't bother wasting your time on this. This was a game of quantity over quality. After spending almost 2 hrs trying to get past boss battle (Atlas), this game just proves (by its own stupidity) it's a pointless endevour. As for the achievement...going right into a garbage can. (I'm so glad I didn't waste more than $1.69 buying this game - and the programming/mechanics/level design/story/music/menus ALL prove how...
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About the game
Over-the-top destruction, loads of enemies & a beautifully realized cyberpunk setting. Hard Reset is here to shake up the shooter scene. Try the demo now.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 512 MB NVIDIA GeForce 8800GS / ATI Radeon HD 3870 or better, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
Hard Reset Extended Edition scores 49/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/98400/hard-reset-extended-editionReviews 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 Oct 13, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.