Mirror's Edge™
Fair · Action · 2009
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 6.1h
- Value
- $3.28/hr
- Reviews
- 88% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
In a city where information is heavily monitored, couriers called Runners transport sensitive data. In this seemingly utopian paradise, a crime has been committed, & you are being hunted. You are a Runner called Faith and this innovative first-person action-adventure is your story.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.99. That was June 2020. It has been discounted 78 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 14 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 9 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Moss VR ($19.99, scores 57) beats it on value, while it beats Mirror's Edge™ Catalyst ($19.99, scores 43).
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 11 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 69 percent of the 4,966 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 6.1 hours. Doing everything runs 13, 2.0 times as long.
Players
43 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
Another modern classic, Mirror's Edge has a lot of style for a game from 2008, very few games have ever adopted this style of first person parkour gameplay.
I've replayed this game 10 times on the 360 its such a work of art. i would put it up there with portal and portal 2. the sequel is also just as amazing, although difficult.
Amazingly beautiful game. It's Short, Sweet, and rather linear so you won't get lost too often. The visuals and music are IMMACULATE. The art direction for this game just perfectly landed, and for that reason I've been wanting to play this game for YEARS. The only thing that doesn't really seem to hold up are the controls. They chose simplicity rather than depth, which makes the game easy to understand, but makes it...
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.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Mirror's Edge™ scores 55/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/17410/mirror-s-edgeThe 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 Aug 3, price as of Sep 24.
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