Battlefield™ 2042
Skip · Shooter · 2021
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 0, under the fair line, at $59.99.
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.41/hr
- Reviews▼
- 47% of 325,857
- Genre rank
- Top 93% Shooter
Holding it back: Reviews, DRM
Recent reviews trending up: 59% over the last 30 days against 47% all-time.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 42.5h
- To 100%
- 145.4h 3.4x the story
- Achievements
- 34
Price and sales
- Sales
- 32 on record
- Typical cut
- 85% off
- Steam low
- $2.99 June 2025
- Sale every
- 46d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 458 now
- Recent reviews
- 59% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 1% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 3% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
71% start to <1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $2.99. That was June 2025. It has been discounted 32 times in the 5 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 85 percent, about 7 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 97 percent. Battlefield™ V ($49.99, scores 24) outscores it, and so does Battlefield 3™ ($39.99, scores 29). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Battlefield™ 2042
Players rate it 47 percent positive over its lifetime, and the last 30 days run 59 percent. It is aging into a better game than its average suggests. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 7 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2026 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 21 percent of the 20,816 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 145, which is 3.4 times the campaign.
325,857 people have reviewed it, which is a big enough crowd to settle the number.
Buy now or wait
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 have been playing this game on XBOX Series X for some time now. I managed to get a disc copy from Amazon for 5 bucks. I bought this Steam copy last year for 3 bucks. But, I never did enable secure boot and could not play it. Finally, sat down and figured out how to enable secure boot on my MB. Playing on PC is very nice compared to an XBOX controller. Overall, I love this Battlefield game way more than Battlefield...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
The only thing that I dislike about this game is that I had to play as the US army. Overall game experience is 9/10
Game so dead now, it's taking too long to gather the minimum 16 players to find a match. Don't bother getting this game anymore
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Battlefield™ 2042 is a first-person shooter that marks the return to the iconic all-out warfare of the franchise.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, AMD Radeon RX 560,Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, 100 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Battlefield™ 2042 scores 0/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. Price last read Nov 5. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1517290/battlefield-2042Reviews 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 Nov 3, price as of Nov 5. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.