Mortal Kombat 1
Skip · Action · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 29, under the fair line, at $49.99.
- Length
- 7.1h
- Value
- $7.04/hr
- Reviews
- 72% positive
Recent reviews trending up: 81% over the last 30 days against 72% all-time.
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 67% ($16.49)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 80% ($9.99)
- Last discount ended
- 17 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 or AMD Radeon RX 590 or Intel Arc A750, 140 GB of storage. Windows only.
Discover a reborn Mortal Kombat™ Universe created by the Fire God Liu Kang. Mortal Kombat™ 1 ushers in a new era of the iconic franchise with a new fighting system, game modes, and fatalities!
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $9.99. That was November 2025. 26 discounts in the 3 years on record. They run about 67 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre. On the same math Mortal Kombat 11 ($49.99, scores 40) and Mortal Kombat X ($19.99, scores 74) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
Critics scored it 82, but players land 10 points lower at 72 percent. The reviews were kinder than the room.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 8 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 7.1-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Players rate it 72 percent positive over its lifetime, and the last 30 days run 81 percent. It is aging into a better game than its average suggests. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 21 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2026 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,814 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 673 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 43 percent of the 1,799 reviews written there were positive, against 72 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (currency); the score docks it lightly for that.
Finishing takes 7.1 hours; clearing it takes 61, which is 8.6 times the campaign.
1.1K players online when we last checked, on Sep 25, 23:45 UTC, 3 years after release.
At 7.1 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
61% start to 8% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 7.1-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
1,075 players online when we last checked, on Sep 25, 23:45 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Honestly, I don't understand all the people saying MK1 "ruined the franchise" or that the game is completely boring. Yeah, MK1 has its problems. I'm not going to pretend it's perfect. But the story is actually really good, the cinematics are amazing, the Kameo system is fun, and the overall combat feels fast, brutal and satisfying. At the end of the day, it's a fighting game. Pick a character you like, learn the...
Mortal Kombat 1 is honestly one of those games where I can just sit down and lose track of time. The graphics are absolutely insane. The characters, arenas, animations and especially the Fatalities look amazing. Everything feels really cinematic, and the amount of detail in the fights is crazy. Watching someone get destroyed in the most ridiculous way possible never gets old 😂. I also really enjoyed the story. The...
I hate some tutorials here, but combo 8 for Geras is just broken, the entire combo is more unstable, than my financial situation. For making it you have to do a perfect frame twice and it still is a big chance, that one of those hit just will not start when it should. Even if you keep spamming Geras will keep standing afk ruining your combo.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Mortal Kombat 1 scores 29/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1971870/mortal-kombat-1Reviews 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 19, price as of Oct 1.
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