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"Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive" is the first strategy game ever to combine a movie-based and story-driven atmosphere of an adventure game with the intellectual challenge of a real time tactic game.In this western-style title, discover a game of strategy and tactics played out in exceptional real time.

Release DateNov 20, 2013
Price$ 4.99
Steam Rating (Steam Purchases / All)87.5% (very positive) / 87.6%  Top 30%
Steam DB Rating (Steam Purchases / All)83.5% Top 15% / 83.8%  Top 15%
Reviews (Steam Purchases / All)1.7K  Top 10% / 2K  Top 10%
Curators30 reviews  Top 20%
Median Play Time20.6 hours  Top 10%
Play Time per Dollar4.1 hours  Top 3%
Followers4.9K  Top 15%
Owners± 249.8K  Top 10%
Copies Sold± 101K  Top 10%
Gross Revenue ($)± 142.3K  Top 20%

Rating and Reviews (Monthly)
  

Chart showing the monthly evolution of Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive steam rating, positive and negative reviews.

This graph shows Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive's Steam rating and reviews between November 2013 and December 2023. Steam's rating oscillates between 100% (November 2013) and 74.7% (July 2017).

Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive is an AAA level success, with 2K reviews Top 10%. The July 2018 peak suggests that there was a major update or discount.

Review Languages
 

Donut graph showing review languages for Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive and the proportion of players they represent.

This doughnut graph shows Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive's reviewers languages. The most popular language is English (39%), followed by German (9%). There is a healthy diversity in the review languages, with 26 different languages represented. The game is available in 6 languages. Unless the game has a lot of dialogues, translating is usually not a lot of work compared to completing a game, therefore adding more translations is generally recommended.

Time Played

Chart displaying Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive percentiles of time played for positive, negative, and early access reviews.

This chart displays the time players have spent in Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive depending if the reviewer left a positive or a negative review. The time in game is excellent, with 47 hours in the 80th percentile.

The negative reviews play time is 28 times lower than the positive reviews median play time. A low negative review time (median : 53 minutes) can mean that the game crashes on some systems or that the type of gameplay was not completely clear to the players (Is the game unmistakably explained on the Steam Store ?). It is also possible that players were otherwise displeased by Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive and decided to review it and get a refund under 2 hours. You could check if there is an explanation in the Players' feedback section.

Players' Feedback

Game's StrengthsGame's Weaknesses
  • Great tactical gameplay
  • Looks really good even at today's standards
  • A bunch of levels requiring different approaches will keep you occupied for a while
  • Engaging narrative drives the narrative forward well
  • Fully realized characters with top notch personalities
  • Dark, culturally flavored setting drawing on the western genre
  • Engaging, challenging, difficult and fine tuned TBT
  • Gorgeous maps and art direction with stunning designs ranging from city to desert to village and everything between
  • Stealth vs. Guns Blazing offer two completely different approaches in achieving goals
  • Great dialog from the gang to enemies and bystanders
  • Controls are a bit clunky
  • Forced failure bugs when forced to save others; Once invisible flags are tripped your save is in a failed state without a way out; make new saves often
  • Difficulty mostly lost once you start camping with Sanchez
  • Shortcuts did not age well; my poor fingers
  • Final character underdeveloped and was almost redundant
  • Minor pathfinding bugs
  • Occasionally broken AI in some enemies under duress
  • Some mission goals obtuse; hard to tell what is required

The intention behind these pros & cons isn't to establish a balanced evaluation of the game, but rather to assist developers in identifying enhancement opportunities. The game's score of 87.5% should be considered while evaluating them.

Please take this list with a grain of salt, as this is an AI generated list based on a small sample of Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive's review data provided by Steam. You don't always need to solve every issue. What some players hate might be what your fanbase loves.

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