Martial Law

Martial Law

Worth it · Narrative · 2021

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

PLAY IT.

Worth it, and it costs nothing.

Length
0.4h
Price
Free to play
Reviews
92% positive
Length
0.4h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
0.7h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
Free
price ÷ main-story length
Price
Free
Reviews
92%
3,854 reviews, as of Sep 24
Released
2021

Minimum on the Steam store: 154 MB of memory, Yes, 154 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

Martial Law is a game about difficulties that came with Communism in Poland. The story is shown from the perspective of a man who is abandoned because of his low social status. He tries his best to be there for his daughter despite the difficulties.
Description from the Steam store page.

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

What we assumed
  • Player count is unknown. We assumed a small player base, about 500 owners.
Raising the score
ValueFree
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews92% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Length0.4 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
RefundsFree
A free game cannot be refunded, so the label never applies
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

On value it sits in the top 4 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 94 percent of its genre. Rental (free, scores 72) outscores it, and so does Off-Peak (free, scores 72). Both sit among its closest neighbours.

Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 0.4 hours it is short enough to finish on one.

The drop-off

66% start to 16% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Martial Law scores 71/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. Player count is unknown, so the score assumes a small player base; Steam shows 3,854 reviews, so it has at least that many owners. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1712390/martial-law
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 24.

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Details

DeveloperFIXER
PublisherFIXER
GenreNarrative
Released2021
Achievements6