Hitman: Absolution™
Worth it · Shooter · 2012
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; 90% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$19.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$1.9990% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.63/hr
- ReviewsS
- 93% of 64,374
- Critics
- 79 players 14 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 8% Shooter
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $1.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 12.3h
- To 100%
- 37.2h 3.0x the story
- Achievements
- 47
Price and sales
- Sales
- 83 on record
- Typical cut
- 80% off
- Steam low
- $1.99 July 2024
- Sale every
- 49d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 331 now
- Recent reviews
- 95% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 16% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 93% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
85% start to 3% rarestThis 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
83 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 80 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. It becomes a BANGER at $12.04, a level the record has reached 83 times.
Its score puts it in the top 8 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Hitman: Blood Money ($0.99, scores 92) beats it on value, while it beats Hitman: Contracts ($8.99, scores 71).
More about Hitman: Absolution™
The press gave it 79; the people who bought it give it 93 percent. A 14-point gap in the buyer's favour.
16 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2025 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 3,233 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
12.3 hours to finish it, 37 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.0 times the campaign.
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
So when Agent 47 stuffs a body in a closet and uses the same closet to chill with the corpse he is a "silent assassin". But when I do it I'm a "necrophiliac" WTF
1 more review, not recommended
good game, not a good hitman playable with proton 9, experimental/hotfix doesnt work due to CEG DRM
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
The original assassin is back! Betrayed by the Agency and hunted by the police, Agent 47 finds himself pursuing redemption in a corrupt and twisted world.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NV8600 512 Mb RAM, or AMD equivalent. Windows only.
Cite this score
Hitman: Absolution™ scores 76/100 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/203140/hitman-absolutionReviews 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.