Mass Effect (2007)
Worth it · Shooter · 2008
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$29.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$7.4975% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.77/hr
- ReviewsS
- 94% of 16,603
- Critics
- 89 players 5 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 9% Shooter
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $7.49 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 16.9h
- To 100%
- 42.5h 2.5x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 68 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $4.39 June 2015
- Sale every
- 46d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 15 now
- Cheaper than
- 7% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 93% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
Across all 68 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Past sales have already crossed the $17.17 BANGER line 68 times.
Its score 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, Mass Effect™ Legendary Edition ($59.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Mass Effect™: Andromeda Deluxe Edition ($39.99, scores 27).
More about Mass Effect (2007)
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.
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
Playing it after almost 20 years after it came out. Yes it got a little bit old but the pleasure is still here. Love the story, the combat system, the exploration. This is such an immersive game plenty of nice stories and characters. This game will never be out of my all time list.
2 more reviews
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
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
As Commander Shepard, you lead an elite squad on a heroic, action-packed adventure throughout the galaxy.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 12 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Mass Effect (2007) scores 75/100 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/17460/mass-effect-2007Reviews 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 Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.