God of War
Worth it · RPG · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $49.99, a BANGER if it drops to $27.60.
- Length
- 20.6h
- Value
- $2.43/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
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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.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
August 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $19.99. 26 discounts in the 5 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 8 weeks. Past sales have already crossed the $27.60 BANGER line 16 times.
Value puts it in the top 2 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 62).
6 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2026 to September 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,416 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,835 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 85 percent of the 4,551 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 4 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.
It came out 4 years ago and 1.4K were still playing it at the last check.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
The drop-off
88% start to 8% 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
1,380 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
Beautiful game, fantastic story with stunning cinematic scenes. Thoroughly enjoyed my time with it. Overall: 8/10. P.S. F**K Sigrun.
God of War is an absolute masterpiece. The story is amazing, the combat feels great, and the world is beautiful. Kratos and Atreus have such a great relationship, and watching their journey develop is one of the best parts of the game. The music, visuals, bosses, and exploration are all incredible. 10/10 - absolutely worth playing.
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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God of War scores 74/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1593500/god-of-warThe 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 11, price as of Sep 23.
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