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Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive

Spellbound · THQ Nordic · 2013-11-20

SteamGOG

ActionStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jul 23, 2001 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

"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.

11
playing now
88%
positive of 2.4k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
81/100
IGDB user rating (99 ratings)
32h
to beat · rushed 24h · completionist 36h
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)

11 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 04:00 UTC (census sample)

Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive is a real-time tactics video game developed by Spellbound Entertainment and published by Infogrames for Microsoft Windows.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 11 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 111 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~14/week).
  • · Review velocity up 1% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 23% of 10,936 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-30

Estimated sales: 97k–195k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,437 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Humble Store$1.24-75%
GOG$4.99
lowest across shops (ITAD)$4.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.94 at GameBillet (2023-11-17) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 69 of 108 observed days · $4.05 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
656520182026Week of 2018-01-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 65 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

5962026-08-06 23:00 — 22 players2026-08-07 07:00 — 24 players2026-08-07 15:00 — 37 players2026-08-07 23:00 — 39 players2026-08-08 07:00 — 24 players2026-08-08 15:00 — 47 players2026-08-08 23:00 — 40 players2026-08-09 07:00 — 27 players2026-08-09 15:00 — 50 players2026-08-09 23:00 — 29 players2026-08-10 07:00 — 12 players2026-08-10 15:00 — 59 players2026-08-10 23:00 — 30 players2026-08-11 07:00 — 16 players2026-08-11 15:00 — 49 players2026-08-12 23:00 — 33 players2026-08-14 06:00 — 11 players2026-08-15 14:00 — 45 players2026-08-16 22:00 — 33 players2026-08-18 06:00 — 18 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 47 players2026-08-20 21:00 — 42 players2026-08-22 04:00 — 12 players2026-08-23 12:00 — 53 players2026-08-24 19:00 — 49 players2026-08-26 04:00 — 8 players2026-08-27 12:00 — 31 players2026-08-28 20:00 — 43 players2026-08-30 04:00 — 11 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$0.942015-01-012026-08-302015-01-01 — best price $1.992015-04-20 — best price $4.992015-07-22 — best price $1.372015-12-05 — best price $1.242016-03-11 — best price $1.242016-06-23 — best price $1.242016-11-24 — best price $1.242017-04-20 — best price $1.252017-08-29 — best price $1.242018-02-12 — best price $1.242018-08-23 — best price $0.992018-12-10 — best price $1.242019-04-01 — best price $1.242019-09-02 — best price $4.992019-12-13 — best price $6.022020-03-26 — best price $4.492020-07-23 — best price $1.252021-01-04 — best price $5.992021-05-10 — best price $4.992021-09-02 — best price $5.992022-01-05 — best price $4.992022-04-24 — best price $1.252022-08-19 — best price $1.242022-12-02 — best price $1.012023-03-13 — best price $1.242023-07-04 — best price $4.992023-10-02 — best price $1.242024-01-06 — best price $4.992024-05-07 — best price $4.992024-09-09 — best price $4.992025-01-02 — best price $4.992025-04-18 — best price $0.992025-08-28 — best price $1.242025-12-07 — best price $4.992026-04-06 — best price $4.992026-07-16 — best price $4.992026-08-30 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerFamily Sharing

5 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain

Player tags

RTSActionClassicStealthWesternStrategyTacticalDifficultIsometricReal-Time

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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