Mafia II: Definitive Edition
Skip · Shooter · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 32, under the fair line, at $29.99.
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.65/hr
- Reviews▼
- 74% of 39,497
- Genre rank
- Top 61% Shooter
Holding it back: Reviews, Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 11.3h
- To 100%
- 36.7h 3.2x the story
- Achievements
- 67
Price and sales
- Sales
- 62 on record
- Typical cut
- 67% off
- Steam low
- $4.49 February 2023
- Sale every
- 31d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 394 now
- Recent reviews
- 80% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 7% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 39% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
83% start to 2% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 62 discounts in the 6 years tracked, the median cut is 67 percent, about 4 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 61 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Mafia: Definitive Edition ($39.99, scores 54) beats it on value, while it beats Mafia III: Definitive Edition ($29.99, scores 4).
More about Mafia II: Definitive Edition
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2026 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 38 percent of the 3,666 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
11.3 hours to finish it, 37 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.2 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely between Nov 10 and Nov 23, at about $5.99 (80% off). Predictions like this were right 80% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks. Its own discounts have started about 70 days apart.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 15 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
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
I played Mafia 2 when I was young, the game that I spent months of my life playing in front of my PC. This is the one. I bought the Definitive Edition version, and it brought back memories of my childhood. This is nostalgia, I recommend it to everyone. The downsides are the bugs that remained from the previous version. The graphics have changed, creating a different atmosphere, and the Mafia world draws you into the...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
The story in Mafia 2 is good to Its just unfortunately, what's happening with Joe Barbaro
Buggy mess! The original Mafia II was fine and it aged pretty well. But this unnecessary remaster managed to turn a seemingly perfect game into a buggy mess that becomes unplayable at certain points. If anyone wants to play Mafia II, I couldn't recommend it enough, but I urge you to buy the classic version and not this garbage.
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About the game
War hero Vito Scaletta becomes entangled with the mob in hopes of paying his father’s debts. Vito works to prove himself, climbing the family ladder with crimes of larger reward and consequence.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, 2GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 or 2GB AMD Radeon HD7870, 50 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Mafia II: Definitive Edition scores 32/100 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/1030830/mafia-ii-definitive-editionReviews 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 Nov 5, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.