Battlefield 4™
Fair · Shooter · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $3.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 6.2h
- Value
- $0.64/hr
- Reviews
- 85% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 30 GB of storage. Windows only.
Embrace unrivaled destruction in Battlefield 4™. Revel in the glorious chaos of all-out war packed with rewarding, tactical challenges in an interactive environment.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.99, set in June 2026. 10 discounts in the 6 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today's $3.99 at 90 percent off still sits 101 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
At full price it scores 34. The current cut is what makes it a 60.
Value puts it in the top 23 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 71 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Battlefield™ 1 ($3.99, scores 64) beats it on value, while it beats Battlefield 3™ ($3.99, scores 31).
This site sampled 400 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 47 percent of the 4,993 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it. It carries the aggressive kind of in-app purchases, and the score already docks it for that. The sticker price is where the spending starts.
6.2 hours to finish it, 18 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.8 times the campaign.
6 years after release it still had 1.2K people in it at once.
The drop-off
49% start to 1% 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
1,153 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
This game and its community are like wine; The older it gets, the more precious it becomes.
Still probably the best battlefield Faction-specific vehicles competent and fun maps more than two factions no item shop Let's ignore the campaign; it's not real, and it can't hurt you and I can still get a game at any time of the day
One very good game with good story and interesting characters, interesting cutscenes and wide variety of missions, bugs are rare but they are present, would recommend in 2026 if you haven't played it.
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.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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Battlefield 4™ scores 60/100 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/1238860/battlefield-4The 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 23.
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