Red Faction
Worth it · Shooter · 2009
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $1.99.
- Length
- 6h
- Value
- $0.33/hr
- Reviews
- 86% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 61 MB of memory, 3D Graphics Accelerator Card (8MB). Windows only.
JOIN THE REVOLUTION! Lured to Mars by the Ultor Corporation's promise of a better life, thousands have come to seek their fortune and work for the massive mining company. But all is not as it seems. A deadly plague is sweeping through the barracks, and miners suffer daily abuse at the hands of the Ultor guards.
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The value story
July 2014 is where it bottomed out, at $0.99. 99 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 80 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today's $1.99 at 80 percent off still sits 101 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
At full price it scores 62. The current cut is what makes it a 73.
Value puts it in the top 11 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 73 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Serious Sam II ($9.99, scores 78) beats it on value, while it beats Crysis ($29.99, scores 37).
Critics scored it 78. Players sit 8 points higher at 86 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
This site sampled 494 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 81 percent of the 556 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 23 percent of everything written about it.
Players
4 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
This is very good and works great on Steam Deck except that saves only work until you quit the game. Not that it's a long game at all and it is very replayable. But I was a little disappointed that I have to start over since I quit to take a break.
Posting a positive review to balance out the guy who called this a Half-Life clone but turned off comments because criticism hurts feelings, I guess. This pioneered destructible environments, has a completely different plot, takes place on a completely different planet, uses different physics, and incorporates vehicles for both land and water. If by "clone" you mean "FPS that also had similar era-specific graphics...
Reminds me of Half-life. Good classic game, though it has some unpatched bugs, I'd recommend getting Apline Faction if you're planning to complete whole game.
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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Red Faction scores 73/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/20530/red-factionThe 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 Aug 1, price as of Sep 24.
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