Max Payne
Worth it · Shooter · 2011
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 65% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$9.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$3.4965% offWorth it
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.23/hr
- ReviewsA
- 89% of 15,991
- Critics
- 89
- Genre rank
- Top 12% Shooter
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.49 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 8.1h
- To 100%
- 11.4h 1.4x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 88 on record
- Typical cut
- 65% off
- Steam low
- $2.49 January 2013
- Sale every
- 45d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 45 now
- Recent reviews
- 84% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 46% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 80% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 88 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 65 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 12 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 80 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).
More about Max Payne
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.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 16 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
I mean its max payne, its unfortunate you have to do so much to get it running. Rockstar kinda bad people but whatevs
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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…
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 92 MB of memory, 16MB Direct3D Compatible Graphics Card, 829 MB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Max Payne scores 71/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/12140/max-payneReviews 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.