AEW: Fight Forever
Skip · Action · 2023
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 4, under the fair line, at $39.99.
- Length
- 4.1h 22.4h to 100%
- Value
- $9.75/hr
- Reviews
- 57% of 1,768 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Developed by YUKE’S, AEW: Fight Forever combines nostalgic arcade-wrestling with All Elite Wrestling finishers and moves. Featuring a big roster of AEW talent, multiple match types, robust career mode, tons of customization options, more than 40 weapons, and so much more!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 1060 / Radeon RX 480 / Intel Arc A380 Graphics, 25 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 27 times in the 3 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, WWE 2K25 ($59.99, scores 24) beats it on value, while it beats Undisputed ($49.99, scores 2).
More about AEW: Fight Forever
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 40 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2023 to October 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,362 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 113 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 5 of the 40 refunded reviewers were past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. In its first 30 days on sale, 12 of 189 sampled reviews came from refunders. Inside the two-hour refund window, 38 percent of the 324 reviews written there were positive, against 57 percent overall, and those are 24 percent of everything written about it.
4.1 hours to finish it, 22 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 5.5 times the campaign.
The drop-off
66% start to 1% 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
What players say
I bought the game on sale. My kid and I have been having fun playing the game. They need to add more match types and customization for the wrestlers/rings. They also need to not give up on the game and keep adding content every year. If they do that the game could be great.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
You can actually play this game still, they keep neutering the other game that they become useless...
Ultimately, I do not recommend this game at full price. I purchased it at 75% off and even at that point I'm on the fence with this purchase. Full disclosure, those N64 WCW/WWF games were a ton of fun and its checking all the nostalgic bits and I prefer those games to current day WWE EA games. Gameplay is the same, but move sets are limited, and they've included a couple of new mechanics (ladder matches, barbed wire...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
AEW: Fight Forever scores 4/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1913210/aew-fight-foreverReviews 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 Sep 26, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.