MechWarrior 5: Clans
Skip · Shooter · 2024
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 36, under the fair line, at $29.99.
- Length
- 24h 49.2h to 100%
- Value
- $1.25/hr
- Reviews
- 74% of 5,904 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
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
In MECHWARRIOR 5: CLANS, players become new Smoke Jaguar pilots in the Clan Invasion of the Inner Sphere. Lead a five-mech "Star" squad across diverse planets, engaging in an expansive campaign with immersive gameplay and intricate combat. Customize BattleMechs and explore strategic options.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, 6GBs VRAM | NVIDIA GTX-1060 | AMD Radeon RX 590, 80 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 14 times in the 2 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 40 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 87 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 62 percent. Among the games that feel like it, MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries ($29.99, scores 70) beats it on value, while it beats Contractors Showdown : ExfilZone ($19.99, scores 14).
More about MechWarrior 5: Clans
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 11 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written February 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 38 percent of the 508 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 24 hours. Doing everything runs 49, 2.1 times as long.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
MechWarrior 5: Clans scores 36/100 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/2000890/mechwarrior-5-clansReviews 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.