Mass Effect™: Andromeda Deluxe Edition
Skip · Shooter · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $7.99.
- Length
- 18.3h
- Value
- $0.44/hr
- Reviews
- 74% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 64% over the last 30 days against 74% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 660 2GB, AMD Radeon 7850 2GB, 55 GB of storage. Windows only.
Return to the Mass Effect universe & lead the first humans in Andromeda on a desperate search for our new home.
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How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $3.19. That was June 2026. Its cuts run 80 percent off as a rule. There have been 54 in the 6 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $7.99 at 80 percent off still sits 150 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Take the discount away and it is a 28. With it, 35.
It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Mass Effect (2007) ($7.49, scores 91) beats it on value, while it beats Mass Effect™ 3 N7 Digital Deluxe Edition (2012) ($7.49, scores 32).
Players rate it 74 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 64 percent. Something recent has soured the room. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 6 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written November 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 39 percent of the 829 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (currency); the score docks it lightly for that.
Finishing takes 18.3 hours; clearing it takes 94, which is 5.1 times the campaign.
The drop-off
83% start to 2% 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
285 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 took 8 hours of playtime for me to get into this game. I nearly quit as I couldn't get into it initially, there was so much stuff thrown at me, and I found the weird facial animations unsettling and writing not up to the ME trilogy. It was like everything wrong with the game is in the first few hours, then the game just clicked after some time spent with it. Things became more interesting, worlds could be...
This is a game I would give a sideways to if I could. I gave it a thumbs up because once I did get into Andromeda it was alright. It took 7ish hours for me to finally click with it. I liked most of the crew (Jaal, my darling.) Story was decent, but it almost feels like they did a "you can copy my homework but change it up a bit." from the original trilogy. Biggest oof I had with the game was 1. Could not get my...
Deeply mediocre game in basically every aspect. Combat - without the jump jet to add a third dimension, it would be a straight downgrade vs. the trilogy. And even then, features which were clearly meant to add movement still feel clunky and unresponsive. Enemy variety is severely lacking as well. Robot faction, bad alien faction, outlaw faction (incl. many reskins of the same units), and wildlife. That's basically...
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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Mass Effect™: Andromeda Deluxe Edition scores 35/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1238000/mass-effect-andromeda-deluxe-editionThe 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 15, price as of Sep 24.
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