Battlefield™ Hardline
Skip · Shooter · 2020
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 15, under the fair line, at $39.99.
- Length
- 7.3h
- Value
- $5.48/hr
- Reviews
- 69% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, ATI 5770 with 1GB VRAM or better/Nvidia GTX260 with 896MB VRAM or better, 60 GB of storage. Windows only.
Strategy. Speed. Story. These are the core pillars of Battlefield™ Hardline, a cops vs. criminals experience unlike any other.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.99, set in June 2026. It has been discounted 8 times in the 6 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales.
It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 74 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Battlefield 3™ ($39.99, scores 29) beats it on value, while it beats BATTALION: Legacy (free, scores 7).
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 18 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2025 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,071 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 269 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 33 percent of the 971 reviews written there were positive, against 69 percent overall, and those are 25 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 7.3 hours. Doing everything runs 25, 3.4 times as long.
The drop-off
58% start to 3% 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
58 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 11:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This is BF4 but if it was good, you can do drive bys in a Mustang while blasting the ripper, and the maps actually have thought put behind them unlike BF4. Larperators hate the fact they cant camp on tanks. Cope
I have tried battlefield before, but this one a little difference its more like crime episodes, not warlike or real "battle-field", just police policing
Just don't buy it, there are so many problems to even launch SINGLE PLAYER campain. Also terrible Battlelog "service" is still here and required to play anything, while barelly working properly. So basicly to run the game IN SINGLE PLAYER, U need to download their anticheat, then download their app, then launch everything from browser level anyway. XD I feel like I dropped in 2010 again, would be really nostalgic...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Battlefield™ Hardline scores 15/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1238880/battlefield-hardlineReviews 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 Sep 26, price as of Aug 29.
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