Max Payne 3
Fair · Shooter · 2012
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 10h
- Value
- $2.00/hr
- Reviews
- 87% positive
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Windows only.
No longer a New York City cop, Max Payne moves to São Paulo to protect a wealthy family in an effort to finally escape his troubled past. This complete edition of Max Payne 3 includes the complete original game and all previously released downloadable content.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
November 2013 is where it bottomed out, at $3.99. 86 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 70 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 5 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 21 percent on value. It is pricier than 79 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 76 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Max Payne ($9.99, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats Quantum Break ($39.99, scores 51).
Steam's global achievement data puts 35 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. 16 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 50 percent of the 4,141 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 10 hours. Doing everything runs 33, 3.3 times as long.
The drop-off
64% start to 35% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements
Players
197 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Max Payne. What a funny name. Like something a kid would come up with. 'Maximum Pain', right? As in, he's in constant heavy pain, and addicted to painkillers. Ha ha. Anyway... There I was, sitting on front of the computer playing the same damn game I played over a decade ago as a kid. Was it determinism? Was it some sort of sick way of covering up my own failures by experiencing the failures of a fictional man who's...
This is be the greatest third person shooter I have ever played, everyone should play this game at least twice if they're even slightly interested in shooters.
Lost access to an old email that was linked to my Steam account, Rockstar support is unwilling to help. Support tickets just get resolved without any opportunity to show proof of ownership and purchase. This company is now on my blacklist.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Max Payne 3 scores 63/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/204100/max-payne-3The BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 11, price as of Sep 24.
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