Battlefield™ 2042
Skip · Shooter · 2021
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $5.99.
- Length
- 42.5h
- Value
- $0.14/hr
- Reviews
- 47% positive
Recent reviews trending up: 63% over the last 30 days against 47% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, AMD Radeon RX 560,Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, 100 GB of storage. Windows only.
Battlefield™ 2042 is a first-person shooter that marks the return to the iconic all-out warfare of the franchise.
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
It has never been cheaper than $2.99. That was June 2025. It has been discounted 31 times in the 5 years tracked here, typically at 85 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. Today's $5.99 at 90 percent off still sits 100 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 96 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Battlefield™ V ($4.99, scores 27) and Battlefield 3™ ($3.99, scores 31) both outscore it.
Players rate it 47 percent positive over its lifetime, and the last 30 days run 63 percent. It is aging into a better game than its average suggests. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 6 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 21 percent of the 20,808 reviews written there were positive, against 47 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 42.5 hours; clearing it takes 140, which is 3.3 times the campaign.
5 years after release it still had 2.8K people in it at once.
The drop-off
71% 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
2,774 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 played on my OS just fine until the developer removed that by making it impossible to play on Linux. They blocked my ability to play a game I was able to play before because of their new anti-cheat. There was no notice they were going to do this and no compensation for basically stealing from me.
Well its a good game. If it could be considered like that because for me it just doesnt work it has to do something with anticheat it happened me before y changed my computer like system in BIOS just to make the game work and some time after that the same ♥♥♥♥ again after an update. I heard it doesnt run now on any linux ,im not on linux and still ♥♥♥ me. I just dont want to have to see videos of how to make it work...
**I came back to Battlefield 2042 after playing Battlefield 6 - and honestly, I never expected to say this.** I used to hate Battlefield 2042. I was one of the people who thought it was a huge disappointment. But after spending a lot of time with Battlefield 6, I decided to go back to 2042… and now I finally understand what this game was trying to be. For me, Battlefield 2042 is simply more comfortable and more fun...
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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Battlefield™ 2042 scores 1/100 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/1517290/battlefield-2042The 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 10, price as of Sep 23.
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