Mass Effect (2007)
BANGER · Shooter · 2008
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $7.49.
- Length
- 16.9h
- Value
- $0.44/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 12 GB of storage. Windows only.
As Commander Shepard, you lead an elite squad on a heroic, action-packed adventure throughout the galaxy.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
June 2015 is where it bottomed out, at $4.39. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 67 in the 14 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart. Today's $7.49 at 75 percent off still sits 71 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Take the discount away and it is a 75. With it, 91.
Value puts it in the top 3 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games closest to it, Mass Effect™: Andromeda Deluxe Edition ($7.99, scores 35) and Mass Effect™ Legendary Edition ($14.99, scores 86) both come in lower.
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $17.27. It costs $7.49.
Of the 612 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 4 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 74 percent of the 1,072 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 16.9 hours. Doing everything runs 43, 2.5 times as long.
Players
22 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
Probably the last good game series (1-2, Andromeda does not exist and 3 was mediocre) Bioware ever made. More well known these day's for the series abysmal, ♥♥♥ ending than the overall quality of the series itself. The first game along with their other original title Dragon Age Origins are standout titles in that for a lot of people, when you think crpg or western rpg, you may be thinking of one of those two games...
Played and finished the game for the first time ever and it still holds up extremely well after all these years. Had a great time with it, minus a major graphical bug in two locations where all the character models turn into black blocks. The world exploration is very barren tho. Controlling the Mako wasn't as bad as i thought after years of seeing people say it was a nightmare to control. Had a very easy time...
worth playing once for the story but honestly the gameplay is pretty garbage even for the time
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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Mass Effect (2007) scores 91/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/17460/mass-effect-2007The 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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