Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy
Fair · Shooter · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $59.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 17.6h
- Value
- $3.41/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB / AMD Radeon RX 570, 80 GB of storage. Windows only.
Fire up a wild ride across the cosmos with a fresh take on Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy. In this action-adventure game, you are Star-Lord leading the unpredictable Guardians from one explosion of chaos to the next. You got this. Probably.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $5.99. That was June 2025. 38 discounts in the 5 years on record. They run about 80 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 25 percent on value. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT ($9.99, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats Star Wars Outlaws ($17.49, scores 28).
Critics scored it 78. Players sit 16 points higher at 94 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 13 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 63 percent of the 1,303 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (cosmetic); the score docks it lightly for that.
The drop-off
74% start to 4% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
219 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
It's a great game. The story and characters carried the whole experience! The writing is genuinely funny at times, and the way the Guardians constantly bicker, joke, and talk about completely random stuff makes them feel so alive. It pulled me in fast; you actually end up caring about this dysfunctional space family. There's also no shortage of big, jaw dropping Marvel moments, and it's cool seeing some characters...
One of the best games I have ever played. This game has heart and is genuinely one of those games that make you feel sad and lonely once it ends. Just like the Deus Ex franchise, Eidos Montreal have struck gold with this game, and just as how good game devs are rewarded, they no longer exist. RIP Eidos Montreal, you deserved better. Don't even think twice before buying this game. I have played it once and enjoyed...
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Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy scores 59/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1088850/marvel-s-guardians-of-the-galaxyThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 18, price as of Sep 24.
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