Red Faction
Fair · Shooter · 2009
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; 80% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$9.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$1.9980% offWorth it
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.67/hr
- Reviews▼
- 86% of 3,013
- Critics
- 78 players 8 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 24% Shooter
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $1.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 6h
- To 100%
- 9h 1.5x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 99 on record
- Typical cut
- 80% off
- Steam low
- $0.99 July 2014
- Sale every
- 40d last September 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 7 now
- Cheaper than
- 46% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 71% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
99 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 80 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 24 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 71 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, DOOM 3 ($9.99, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats Crysis ($29.99, scores 42).
More about Red Faction
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 503 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 81 percent of the 560 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 23 percent of everything written about it.
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
Short Review: 7.9/10 Lengthy Review: Gonna do the whole good, bad, and ugly schtick again, but it will be a tad bit shorter as I don't have alot to say about this game The Good: Story is easy to grasp, interesting, and understandable, but not super complex or deep, gunplay and fight sequences are consistent and fun alot of the times, and there's functional stealth segments too but their a little janky (it is a very...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
My father bought our first PC in 2009. About two months later, he bought me this game. I thought it was the coolest thing ever. However, neither me nor papa knew how to install it. We fiddled around for a good couple of hours and finally got it to install. I remember him telling me, "well it works somehow, don't mess it up. have fun." Me and my brother played this game for hours on end. Good times. I bought it on...
impossible to beat without mods because the submarine in the dock explodes for no reason when its free figured out how to prevent it from exploding (quicksave before its dropped since game doesnt like 120 fps) but game still isnt good because the puzzles are horrible
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 61 MB of memory, 3D Graphics Accelerator Card (8MB). Windows only.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Red Faction scores 61/100 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/20530/red-factionReviews 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 Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.