Prototype™
Skip · Action · 2009
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; 80% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$19.99Skip
Typical seasonal cut
$4.9975% offFair
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.82/hr
- Reviews▼
- 81% of 14,384
- Critics
- 79 players 2 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 14% Action
Holding it back: Refunds, Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 11h
- To 100%
- 32.3h 2.9x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 105 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $3.99 September 2025
- Sale every
- 42d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 43 now
- Recent reviews
- 82% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 6% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 83% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 105 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 14 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 83 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Days Gone ($39.99, scores 85) beats it on value, while it beats Prototype 2 ($39.99, scores 37).
More about Prototype™
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 27 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written December 2024 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,368 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 301 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 3 of the 27 refunded reviewers were past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 53 percent of the 2,778 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 22 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 11 hours; clearing it takes 32, which is 2.9 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
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
Childhood memories, my god this game is still amazing.. I love it. WE NEED A PROTOTYPE 3 NOW
2 more reviews
It's really fun for gaming from time to time, the animations between missions are not too long, he movements and actions are satisfying and there is total freedom of movement, free roam on the map and mod additions
With some patching this game is playable again on high end system! I love this oldschool classic. Only thing what sucks is that you need to accept the EULA. This means the company can remove the game from your library at any time... At that moment i also want my money back...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
You are the Prototype, Alex Mercer, a man without memory armed with amazing shape-shifting abilities, hunting your way to the heart of the conspiracy which created you; making those responsible pay. Fast & Deadly Shape-Shifting Combat: Reconfigure your body to the situation at hand.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Prototype™ 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/10150/prototypeReviews 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 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.