Max Payne
Worth it · Shooter · 2011
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99.
- Length
- 8.1h
- Value
- $1.23/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 75% over the last 30 days against 89% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 92 MB of memory, 16MB Direct3D Compatible Graphics Card, 829 MB of storage. Windows only.
Max Payne is a man with nothing to lose in the violent, cold urban night. A fugitive undercover cop framed for murder, hunted by cops and the mob, Max is a man with his back against the wall, fighting a battle he cannot hope to win. Prepare for pain…
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $2.49. That was January 2013. It has been discounted 87 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 65 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 5 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 13 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 81 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne ($9.99, scores 78) beats it on value, while it beats Max Payne 3 ($19.99, scores 63).
Players rate it 89 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 75 percent. Something recent has soured the room. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 35 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 63 percent of the 1,946 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
Players
43 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
I mean its max payne, its unfortunate you have to do so much to get it running. Rockstar kinda bad people but whatevs
The Young Bloods don't know ♥♥♥♥ about good Third person shooters and bullet time and neo-noir. This game is amazing, and while I know it's a classic to a lot of people, there is a generation of children who call themselves Yumeshippers and play roblox games that don't know ♥♥♥♥ about good games like Max Payne
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Max Payne scores 71/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/12140/max-payneThe 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 Aug 3, price as of Sep 24.
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