God of War
Worth it · RPG · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 60% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$49.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$19.9960% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.43/hr
- ReviewsS
- 96% of 186,704
- Critics
- 93 players 3 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 4% RPG
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $19.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 20.6h
- To 100%
- 51h 2.5x the story
- Achievements
- 37
Price and sales
- Sales
- 27 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $19.99 August 2024
- Sale every
- 53d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 1,046 now
- Recent reviews
- 94% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 2% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
88% start to 8% 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
27 discounts in the 5 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 8 weeks apart. Past sales have already crossed the $27.52 BANGER line 17 times.
Its score puts it in the top 4 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Black Myth: Wukong ($59.99, scores 80) beats it on value, while it beats God of War Ragnarök ($59.99, scores 63).
More about God of War
5 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2026 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 85 percent of the 4,555 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
20.6 hours to finish it, 51 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.5 times the campaign.
The rating rests on 186,704 reviews, so it is not going to move much from here.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
An awesome adventure from start to finish and super sweet action game. God of War should have been on PC from the start! I love the character development, particularly how Kratos goes from hating side content to starting to have fun with it and it's neat seeing his son's growth as he learns more about the situation. Lots of cool ways to upgrade Kratos and Boy ... errr Atreus. Had a good bit of fun running around...
1 more review, not recommended
God of War (2018) is a mediocre game and a terrible continuation of the series. I don't even know where to begin. Instead of a unique, wrathful hero, we get your standard, default depressive guy cosplaying as Kratos. Even his strength feels diminished thanks to the combat overhaul. Kratos tearing through a dozen mooks, a couple of giants, and beings of titanic scale? Forget it. Now the best you'll get is a pair of...
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About the game
His vengeance against the Gods of Olympus years behind him, Kratos now lives as a man in the realm of Norse Gods and monsters. It is in this harsh, unforgiving world that he must fight to survive… and teach his son to do the same.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 960 (4 GB) or AMD R9 290X (4 GB), 70 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
God of War scores 74/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1593500/god-of-warReviews 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 4, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.