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Western Press cover art

Western Press

Bandit-1 · Surprise Attack · 2016-04-21

Steam

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Apr 21, 2016 (Mac), Mar 23, 2018 (Xbox One), Apr 21, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Based on a true story, Western Press is the most historically accurate frontier dueling game available for PC and Mac. Probably. Up to 16 players (or bots) compete in a tournament of 1v1 sprints to press a random string of ten buttons the fastest.

Western Press is an Action and Indie game released in 2016, priced at $4.99, with an owner estimate of 50,000 .. 100,000 and a Mixed review sentiment (68% of 293 reviews).

1
playing now
68%
positive of 293 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
0.5h
time to beat (IGDB)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$4.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 10:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 5 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 44% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 25% of 28,023 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 7.3k–18k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 293 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.54 at Steam (2022-06-23) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 17 of 33 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
8820162026Week of 2016-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 08:00 — 1 players2026-09-27 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-15 10:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$4.99$0.542016-04-212026-08-132016-04-21 — best price $4.492016-07-15 — best price $4.992017-04-17 — best price $4.992017-09-21 — best price $4.992018-02-19 — best price $4.992018-07-23 — best price $1.242018-11-01 — best price $4.992019-02-04 — best price $1.642019-09-12 — best price $4.992019-12-09 — best price $0.992020-02-03 — best price $0.992020-05-04 — best price $4.992020-06-03 — best price $4.992020-06-22 — best price $4.992020-07-06 — best price $3.662020-07-22 — best price $4.992020-08-06 — best price $4.992020-08-22 — best price $4.992020-09-16 — best price $4.392021-01-14 — best price $0.992021-07-08 — best price $4.992021-11-24 — best price $0.992022-03-07 — best price $4.992022-08-19 — best price $0.542022-11-04 — best price $4.992023-01-01 — best price $0.542023-03-16 — best price $0.542023-06-15 — best price $0.542023-08-25 — best price $4.992023-11-06 — best price $0.792024-02-12 — best price $0.792024-06-15 — best price $0.792024-10-02 — best price $0.792025-01-23 — best price $0.792025-06-14 — best price $0.792025-09-22 — best price $4.992026-01-15 — best price $4.992026-04-16 — best price $4.992026-07-09 — best price $4.992026-08-13 — best price $0.79
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

25
achievements tracked
40.5%
earned "Cangratulations"
5.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerMulti-playerShared/Split ScreenCross-Platform MultiplayerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam WorkshopCamera ComfortColor AlternativesCustom Volume Controls1 DLC

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2016-07-07 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2,6256%25
Xbox One (Xbox)1,06658%23

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2DFunnyIndieMemesActionCasualTypingWesternMultiplayerSingleplayer

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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