Mafia: Definitive Edition

Mafia: Definitive Edition

Fair · Shooter · 2020

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 85% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$39.99Fair

Typical seasonal cut

$5.9985% offWorth it

Cost per hour▼
$3.77/hr
Reviews▼
87% of 112,423
Critics
78 players 9 higher
Genre rank
Top 33% Shooter

Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews

Why
It needs 60% off ($15.85) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.99 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
10.6h
To 100%
24.5h 2.3x the story
Finish
50% reach the ending
Achievements
43

Price and sales

Sales
61 on record
Typical cut
65% off
Steam low
$5.99 May 2025
Sale every
34d last October 2026
Lowest now $38.99 at Fanaticalall-time low $5.00 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
331 now
Recent reviews
89% 30 days
Cheaper than
3% of its genre
Better reviewed
74% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

92% start to 50% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

It has been discounted 61 times in the 6 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 65 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.

Against its own genre its score lands in the top 33 percent. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 74 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Mafia ($14.99, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Mafia II: Definitive Edition ($29.99, scores 32).

More about Mafia: Definitive Edition

Critics scored it 78. Players sit 9 points higher at 87 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.

Steam's global achievement data puts 50 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 8 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2026 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 53 percent of the 4,078 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.

10.6 hours to finish it, 25 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.3 times the campaign.

112,423 reviews stand behind that percentage.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Next discount: likely between Nov 10 and Nov 23, at about $7.99 (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.

Last discount ended 15 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

Raising the score
Engagement50% finish
How far players get (achievements). It can only add points
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Cost per hour$3.77/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Refunds8 of 800 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

What a masterpiece... I played this for the first time, so please don't judge me. But this game was truly worth every minute. The story... man, every mission was a banger. The character development from start to finish was just awesome. In my opinion they couldn't have created a better main character for this game than Tommy. The achievements are really well organized. While playing through the game on Classic mode...
xmuchogustoRecommendedafter 12h6 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

An inadvertent brush with the mob thrusts cabdriver Tommy Angelo into the world of organized crime. Initially uneasy about falling in with the Salieri family, the rewards become too big to ignore.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 / AMD Radeon HD 7870, 50 GB of storage. Windows only.

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Mafia: Definitive Edition scores 54/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1030840/mafia-definitive-edition
Embed the live badge

Reviews 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 8, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+9
Critics78
Players87
Metacritic critics · 112,423 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperHangar 13
Publisher2K
GenreShooter
Released2020
Players1.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements43