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Western Press cover art

Western Press

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

Steam

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

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.

0
playing now
68%
positive of 293 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
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)
$4.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 09:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 53% of 10,862 Action games in the census by review count.
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 19 of 38 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

102026-08-11 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 11:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 11:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 11:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 17:00 — 1 players2026-08-24 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-29 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 09:00 — 0 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).

Details

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

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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