Max Payne 3
Fair · Shooter · 2012
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 70% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$19.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$5.9970% offWorth it
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.00/hr
- Reviews▼
- 87% of 65,041
- Critics
- 87
- Genre rank
- Top 22% Shooter
Holding it back: DRM, Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 10h
- To 100%
- 33.4h 3.3x the story
- Finish
- 35% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 67
Price and sales
- Sales
- 87 on record
- Typical cut
- 70% off
- Steam low
- $3.99 November 2013
- Sale every
- 46d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 343 now
- Recent reviews
- 89% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 16% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 74% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
64% start to 35% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
87 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 70 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 22 percent. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 74 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).
More about Max Payne 3
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 18. 17 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2025 to October 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,424 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 290 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 50 percent of the 4,163 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 10 hours. Doing everything runs 33, 3.3 times as long.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 16 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
It's been a while since I've been in this game. The shooting, the story, the atmosphere, the background music, everything regards to this game is well made. The only game that I enjoyed slaughtering bunch of baddies with guns, and you can also appreciate the bullet time that gives an extra satisfaction throughout the shootouts.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
DOWNLOAD FUSIONFIX FOR A BETTER EXPERIENCE ON PC Max Payne 3 belongs to that weird trend of violent games that attempt to subvert the cliche of heroic gun toting action heroes that you saw a lot during the X360/PS3 generation (Bioshock, Spec Ops: The Line, arguably you could also put GTA4 and Red Dead Redemption in the same category). Hell, Kane and Lynch 2 predates this game by two years, and the two games share a...
The performance is terrible, I'm averaging 25 - 30 fps on a Ryzen 7 3700x and a 2080TI. It also can't be influenced at all by changing settings and gets progressively worse leading me to believe it's a memory leak issue. And don't get me started on the Rockstar Launcher you have to run in order to play.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Windows only.
Cite this score
Max Payne 3 scores 63/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/204100/max-payne-3Reviews 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.