Wolfenstein: The New Order

Wolfenstein: The New Order

Worth it · Shooter · 2014

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

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

$19.99Worth it

Typical seasonal cut

$4.9975% offBANGER

Cost per hour▼
$1.77/hr
ReviewsS
92% of 62,834
Critics
81 players 11 higher
Genre rank
Top 11% Shooter

Holding it back: Cost per hour

Why
It needs 54% off ($9.14) to be a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.99 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
11.3h
To 100%
24.3h 2.2x the story
Achievements
50

Price and sales

Sales
76 on record
Typical cut
70% off
Steam low
$3.99 June 2021
Sale every
46d last October 2026
Lowest now $4.49 at Fanaticalall-time low $3.40 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
181 now
Recent reviews
91% 30 days
Cheaper than
16% of its genre
Better reviewed
89% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

94% start to 5% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

It has been discounted 76 times in the 13 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 70 percent, about 7 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $9.14. The record reaches that level 53 times.

Its score sits in the top 11 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Return to Castle Wolfenstein ($4.99, scores 89) beats it on value, while it beats Wolfenstein: The Old Blood ($19.99, scores 59).

More about Wolfenstein: The New Order

81 from critics against 92 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.

This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 5 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written November 2024 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 56 percent of the 1,940 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.

The main story runs 11.3 hours. Doing everything runs 24, 2.2 times as long.

It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 11.3 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Last discount ended 24 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

Raising the score
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Cost per hour$1.77/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
Refunds5 of 800 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

If you're reading this, that means you've thought about getting into the Wolfenstein series, and this is the perfect place to be for that. I'll be reviewing the game specifically for someone who is just considering playing it, and in separate sections. It will contain no spoilers. I hope you find it useful! Nazi Germany has won the most deadliest war in human history thanks to an ancient technology and science that...
ProxioRecommendedafter 20h52 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I'm not sure why, but the games I end up loving always seem to either be from the 7TH generation of gaming or take place during a dry fall or winter. This game is no exception. It gives me the exact same vibr as Dishonored 1, Mafia II, and Resident Evil 4.
SMOKEDOPE2016Recommendedafter 5.6h10 found this helpfulRead on Steam
The story is interesting, and the odds seem stacked high against the protagonist, which is great. But. The cut-scenes are too long and missions so short and specific (raise this ramp, clear this corridor) that it completely ruined immersion for me. Learn from Valve, play Half-Life, that's how you make an FPS. And OMG enough with the checkpoints. Give me ability to save whenever I want to save, what's wrong with you...
CherroristNot recommendedafter 3.8h3 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

Wolfenstein®: The New Order reignites the series that created the first-person shooter genre. Wolfenstein offers a deep game narrative packed with action, adventure and first-person combat.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce 460, ATI Radeon HD 6850, 50 GB of storage. Windows only.

Cite this score

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Wolfenstein: The New Order scores 72/100 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/201810/wolfenstein-the-new-order
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Reviews 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 Nov 4, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+11
Critics81
Players92
Metacritic critics · 62,834 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperMachineGames
PublisherBethesda Softworks
GenreShooter
Released2014
Players3.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements50